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Re:Ask HN: What has been your experience with CockroachDB? by speedgoose on Sunday August 28, 2022 @12:07PM (#32629450)
I read various interpretations of the AGPL and some people think it’s not the case.

MongoDB used to be AGPL and I believe most people didn’t interpret the license as everything calling the database must be AGPL, and then everything calling the thing calling the database too, that recursively until the entire world must be licensed under AGPL.

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Re:Ask HN: What has been your experience with CockroachDB? by paulryanrogers on Sunday August 28, 2022 @01:43PM (#32630283)
We'll see when AGPL gets tested in court. Until then I suspect legal departments will continue to treat AGPL, and even GPL (because of on prem), as a viral license which could require disclosing all their source.
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Re:Ask HN: What has been your experience with CockroachDB? by cvalka on Sunday August 28, 2022 @10:22PM (#32634172)
No
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Re:Ask HN: What has been your experience with CockroachDB? by paulryanrogers on Sunday August 28, 2022 @11:28PM (#32634501)
No we won't see it tested in court? Or legal departments won't consider it a viral license?
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Re:Ask HN: What has been your experience with CockroachDB? by olddustytrail on Monday August 29, 2022 @02:48PM (#32641939)
The latter. Every large company on the planet uses Linux which is GPL.
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Re:Ask HN: What has been your experience with CockroachDB? by paulryanrogers on Monday August 29, 2022 @06:15PM (#32644252)
GPL is widely used in SAAS because network users of SAAS aren't entitled to source. AGPL is different.
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