[ianamartin]

For people defending this, you're being naive. It's way too easy to argue that the value of any app resides mostly in the data it collects. That data is stored in MongoDB, therefore the value of the app "primarily derives from the Program."

Of course their sales people are saying "No. We won't use it that way." Sales people gonna sell.

I'm sure the people currently running MongoDB would not do that. What happens when they get acquired by, say, Oracle? Or some other company that absolutely would do that?

The bottom line that you have to assume from a legal point of view is that any part of an agreement that can be abused, will be abused. This not only can be and will be, but it will be really easy.

If they are doing this to prevent people from competing with their own service--which they absolutely are--then they need to rewrite it and make that explicit. This is way too squishy for anyone with an ounce of brains to use in a commercial product.