AWS pushes MongoDB compatible alternative as licences change
Summary
As a result, smaller companies are understandably unwilling to wager their existence against the strategic interests of the large cloud suppliers, and most new software is being written as closed source.” Similarly, in August 2018, in-memory database company Redis, changed its open source licence under Apache Common Clause. However, the fact that DocumentDB conveniently gets around the limitations imposed by MongoDB’s shift in licensing to prevent cloud providers from taking away its support revenue stream, suggests AWS may be bending the rules of acceptable behaviour in the open source community. As MongoDB’s Horowitz points out, revenue from enterprise support is needed to enable open source is essential to fund the ongoing development of OSS projects. In the past, public cloud providers could take the code and freely distribute it as part of a managed service on their vast infrastructure.
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