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by devd 4619 days ago
Interesting - The server is licensed under AGPL, the clients are Apache v2.0 and there is a promise that a client is a separate "work"
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I understand the reason the AGPL exists, but has it ever been used by a project successfully? They can't (or rather, won't) be used by businesses, because corporate lawyers aren't dumb. So that leaves personal and academic projects. I've never seen a successful open source project that could survive on toy interest like that.
The mongodb server is a clear example of this.
Thanks for pointing this out - I was under the assumption that mongodb is under dual GPL/commercial license