by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 30, 2018 | MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Open Source, Percona Software, PostgreSQL
As MongoDB® has changed their license from AGPL to SSPL many are concerned by this change, and by how sudden it has been. Will SSPL be protective enough for MongoDB, or will the next change be to go to an altogether proprietary license? According to our poll, many are...
by Vadim Tkachenko | Oct 24, 2018 | MongoDB
As you may have heard, MongoDB recently changed the license for MongoDB Community version from AGPL to SSPL. In order to better serve our users and customers, we’d like to ask about your plans. Please select the answer that best describes your current thinking...
by Peter Zaitsev | Oct 18, 2018 | MongoDB
MongoDB, Inc. announced it has elected to change its license for MongoDB Community Server from AGPLv3 to a new license type they have created called a “Server Side Public License (SSPL)” citing the need to have a license better suited for the age of...
by Colin Charles | Aug 31, 2018 | MySQL, Open Source, PostgreSQL
Join Percona Chief Evangelist Colin Charles as he covers happenings, gives pointers and provides musings on the open source database community. There has been a lot of talk around licenses in open source software, and it has hit the database world in the past weeks....
by Vadim Tkachenko | May 8, 2009 | Percona Events
This is rather a theoretical interest for me for now (what else to do Friday evening) , but I see how it can be used in current dual-licensed mixed open / closed source storage engines MySQL world. So problem is: Let’s keep MySQL aside for simplicity and imagine...
