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Open source licenses may not matter so much any more

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MongoDB’s efforts to get OSI endorsement a more business-friendly SSPL have failed. MongoDB is proceeding anyhow, reflecting a possibly pivotal moment. After all the drama around MongoDB’s change of license from the open source Affero General Public License (AGPL) to the hopefully-but-not-yet-open-source Server Side Public License (SSPL), the company has now decided to retire the effort. No, … Read more

AWS pushes MongoDB compatible alternative as licences change

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They probably didn’t see that coming… MongoDB’s switch to server-side licensing may have backfired, as AWS launches an API-compatible version. Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced a fully managed MongoDB compatible database service, effectively killing off MongoDB’s revenue stream. AWS has introduced a new service, Amazon DocumentDB, which is compatible with MongoDB, providing what the cloud giant … Read more