Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license
by zjaffee on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @01:39PM
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It's funny because redis recently did something rather similar to what mongo just did. This will be an accelerating trend in open source, where these sorts of companies will either develop proprietary platforms with closed source code (databricks), or will move forward the way redis and mongo are.
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Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license
by darkarmani on Tuesday October 16, 2018 @03:11PM
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> This will be an accelerating trend in open source
Until communities refuse to sign CLA that let projects bait-and-switch to another license once they have a large community and want to now take buckets of VC money.
Re:MongoDB switches up its open source license
by 2little_time on Friday October 19, 2018 @07:11PM
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In my experience its the opposite. Companies form around the business plan of exploiting FOSS by hosting, solicit buckets of VC money, and give nothing back. It's completely unsustainable.
It's totally rational to create a license model that prevents hosting to third parties, but still allows end users to adopt the technology without paying. As has been pointed out elsewhere, that may not be right for all OS projects, but it should be an option.