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by LoriP 1339 days ago
Your case in point dropped off, but Percona (MySQL and MongoDB distributions) and until a couple of years ago MariaDB fell into this category I think.
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Was going to mention MongoDB. the day they announced the change, I created a fork (https://github.com/danx0r/mongo). Now, if a client wants mongoDB I just install this version on a cpu somewhere and go from there. If the project really needs more up-to-date versions of the core DB or the cloud tools, we have a discussion about the restrictions that apply to later versions.

I think this does not really constitute pump-and-dump or loss-leader behavior because the code generated during the open license phase has real value to the community.

One thing I think could use more analysis is, does Mongo's license change breach any copyleft provisions of the original license? I recall they started with the permissive Apache license but prior to the last change 4 years ago they were AGPL.

What happened a couple of years ago with MariaDB?
That was a bad explanation on my part, sorry. They are still open source! But they diverged from keeping fully aligned with MySQL developments AFAIK so are no longer a fork/distribution as they are forging their own path.

So I was being unclear, the "until a couple of years ago" was referring to divergence rather than a change in license.

Thanks for the reply. I followed this quite closely at the time, but not for the last few years. Glad to hear they're still open. Features will get us all in the end, eh? :)