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A comment on MongoDB Wire Protocol Specification License.

Re:MongoDB Wire Protocol Specification License by gentleman11 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:32PM (#27909339)
AWS benefits heavily from a rich foss ecosystem, but foss systems also makes it easier for users to migrate to similar platforms. If they were to disrupt the foss ecosystem enough, do we enter a world of heavy reliance on proprietary cloud-based systems?

If you were intending to create a profitable business, and really wanted your product to be foss, and Amazon might just fork your project, honestly, what are your options? I'm honestly curious, it seems like such a difficult situation

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Re:MongoDB Wire Protocol Specification License by aks_tldr on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:44PM (#27909491)
Foss have many licenses, you can choose strict ones.
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Re:MongoDB Wire Protocol Specification License by gentleman11 on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @01:49PM (#27909558)
Which in specific would help here? From a 4 freedoms point of view, where anybody can use or modify the software for any purpose, it seems tricky.
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Re:MongoDB Wire Protocol Specification License by tpxl on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @05:27PM (#27912441)
GNU AGPLv3

Wiki quote:

> GNU Affero General Public License is a modified version of the ordinary GNU GPL version 3. It has one added requirement: if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the modified version running there.

>The purpose of the GNU Affero GPL is to prevent a problem that affects developers of free programs that are often used on servers.

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Re:MongoDB Wire Protocol Specification License by hocuspocus on Wednesday July 21, 2021 @04:51PM (#27912001)
The AGPL guarantees the four freedoms and specifically prevents (cloud) companies from running a proprietary fork.
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