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Comment by malisper

Author here. At least for databases, AGPL (or stricter) has become standard. The issue is it's so easy for megacorps (Amazon, Google, etc) to take a permissively licensed product and monetize it at the expense of the original standard.

For instance, Mongo, Cockroach, and Materialize have all gone source available. We picked AGPL because it's the best balance between open source and prevents Amazon from just repackaging it and selling it.

If AGPL is an issue for anyone, we would be happy to dual-license under a commercial license.

parent malisper 2 months ago

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