NEW YORK, Oct. 16, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) – Today MongoDB, Inc. (Nasdaq: MDB), the leading modern, general purpose database platform, issued a new software license, calledServer Side Public License (SSPL), for MongoDB Community Server. The license clearly and explicitly states the conditions of deploying MongoDB - or any other open source project licensed under the SSPL - as a service. All versions of MongoDB’s Community Server released after today, including patch fixes for prior versions, will be licensed under the SSPL.
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Why would MongoDB do this? Well, apparently Mongo DB got fed up with cloud giants ripping off its database.
By Thomas Claburn in San Francisco 16 Oct 2018:
Fed up with cloud giants ripping off its database, MongoDB forks new open-source license
Paperwork demands code from internet goliaths
Analysis After Redis Labs relicensed the modules it developed to complement its open-source database, from AGPL to Apache v2.0 with a Commons Clause, the free-software community expressed dismay.
And, inevitably, some responded by forking the affected code.
Today, the maker of another open source database, MongoDB, plans to introduce a license of its own to deal with the issue cited by Redis: cloud service providers that sell hosted versions of open-source programs – such as Redis and MongoDB database servers – without offering anything in return.
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