Quoting Brian E. Lavender (brian(a)brie.com):
I feel like I am definitely behind the times! Now I
see the "Server Side
Public License"
https://www.mongodb.com/licensing/server-side-public-license
Not open source because it is discriminatory towards specific fields of
use. Thus, it's a "fauxpen source" licence.
https://opensource.org/node/1099
(MongoDB, Inc. applied to OSI for "OSI Certified" status, then withdrew
it when they saw it was going to be voted down.)
I don't buy MongoDB, Inc.'s claim that Affero GPL's "boundaries are
being tested". What they really mean is that they changed Affero GPL
section 13 scope to broaden it to require source release of "management
software, user interfaces, application program interfaces, automation
software, monitoring software, backup software, storage software and
hosting software, all such that a user could run an instance of the
service using the Service Source Code you make available" as a poison
pill against commercial competition. Major distros responded by
dropping MongoDB.
Elastic NV has made the same move with Elasticsearch/Kibana for the same
reasons. The open source world responded, as with MongoDB, by dropping
the package, and also in Elasticsearch/Kibana's case, forking as OpenSearch
and OpenSearch Dashboards.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenSearch_(software)
Nobody has (yet) forked the last AGPL version of MongoDB to take it back
to open source.
https://www.reddit.com/r/mongodb/comments/agyalw/looking_for_active_fork_of…