Affero not harmful
Affero not harmful
Posted Feb 10, 2017 15:40 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)In reply to: Affero not harmful by Cyberax
Parent article: RethinkDB source relicensed, donated to the Linux Foundation
> This is clearly insane. So MongoDB has a public interpretation of the license that excludes normal database users from AGPL's reach. But they are free to rescind this interpretation at any moment - it won't be retroactive but any code running within future MongoDB versions won't be protected from AGPL.
Are they free? (I don't have a clue.) Or does the copyright assignment have clauses (like the FSF do) preventing the closure of the code?
The FSF can't close any code they've been given the copyright to, because part of the copyright transfer forbids it.
Cheers,
Wol