MongoDB switches up its open source license

Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license by zzzcpan on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @10:55AM (#18229865)

But you can still offer it as a service, just as long as you opensource your infrastructure. The only thing it prevents you is profiting from lock-in of your services without sharing those profits with MongoDB. Very much in the spirit of open source.

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Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license by mbreese on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @11:25AM (#18230115)

Yeah, but how is that really supposed to work? I can see why MongoDB would want to do this, but how on earth is this really supposed to be implemented? Where do you draw the line? What I suspect is that you'll end up with a bunch of shell scripts for creating MongoDB instances...

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Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license by pas on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:41PM (#18232512)

MongoDB bets that anyone who wants to run mongo-as-a-service will ask them for a business license (instead of open sourcing their whole cloud management stuff), and they will work out a deal.

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Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license by nateburke on Friday October 19, 2018 @08:05PM (#18260948)

>> shell scripts for creating MongoDB instances...

_minified_ shell scripts

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Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license by darkarmani on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @04:00PM (#18232718)

> sharing those profits with MongoDB. Very much in the spirit of open source.

I'm not sure how these ideas tie together.

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