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Re:Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached by jitl on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @11:25AM (#31570629)
MongoDB is the most famous example to transition from AGPL to a closed license. MongoDB was AGPL until October 16, 2018. Since October 16, 2018, it uses Server Side Public License (SSPL), which they authored.

From their FAQ:

> The market is quickly moving to consume most software as a service. This is a time of incredible opportunity for open source projects, with the potential to foster a new wave of great open source server side software. The reality, however, is that once an open source project becomes interesting, it is too easy for large cloud vendors to capture all the value but contribute nothing back to the community.

HN discussion from 2018: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18229452

FAQ: https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license...

Today, MongoDB is an AWS partner: https://aws.amazon.com/quickstart/architecture/mongodb/

The most recent notable example of open-source software going closed because of Amazon specifically is Elasticsearch, which switched from Apache to SSPL. The announcement blog post was titled "Amazon: NOT OK - why we had to change Elastic licensing".

HN discussion from 2021: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25833781

FAQ: https://www.elastic.co/pricing/faq/licensing

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Re:Dragonflydb – A modern replacement for Redis and Memcached by josephcsible on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @11:55AM (#31571056)
MongoDB is definitely an example. Did switching licenses actually "fix" their "problem" though? And ElasticSearch doesn't count since it was a pushover license before and not the AGPL.
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