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Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license by sangnoir on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:31PM (#18231317)
> AGPL was a roundabout way of hinting that cloud providers should kick back some revenue and now that it didn't work the truth can come out.

How does AGPL force kicking back of revenue? The only way I can think of is if the cloud-provider choose to relicense the software (for a fee), because they can always fulfill the terms of the AGPL by publishing all their changes without paying a dime.

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Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license by wmf on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @02:21PM (#18231807)
There was an unstated assumption that hosting providers aren't willing to contribute back their secret sauce changes so they would have to buy a commercial license. But that didn't work. I don't know if the new MongoDB license will work either; the Commons "Clause" seems more honest in its wording.
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