Affero not harmful
Affero not harmful
Posted Feb 8, 2017 21:40 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: Affero not harmful by ncm
Parent article: RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation
MongoDB _is_ corporate shareware. Pretty much all large companies that actually use it have a commercial license for it.
Besides, Mongo quite explicitly restricts the AGPL range: "To say this another way: if you modify the core database source code, the goal is that you have to contribute those modifications back to the community". I was assured by our lawyer that this interpretation is not necessarily the intent of the AGPL license and can't be applied to other projects.
I actually don't mind a good LGPL-like cloud license (A-LGPL?) that has a strictly limited scope of what's considered a derived work. And better legal implementation.
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