Comments on: mongodb 1.3.3 (devel) with mongostat http://www.kennygorman.com/wordpress/?p=495 database engineering, architecture, and other assorted bits Thu, 01 Jul 2010 06:38:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: kgorman http://www.kennygorman.com/wordpress/?p=495&cpage=1#comment-2259 kgorman Mon, 15 Mar 2010 21:06:21 +0000 http://www.kennygorman.com/wordpress/?p=495#comment-2259 Alex, The license for what I wrote is the MIT license. And you are correct in that the mongostat included within MongoDB is now under that license (http://github.com/kgorman/mongo/blob/master/GNU-AGPL-3.0.txt). I am not an expert on this specific license so I can't give you the legal low down. But your point is a good one, how about sending a note to the mongoDB email list @: http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user Alex,

The license for what I wrote is the MIT license. And you are correct in that the mongostat included within MongoDB is now under that license (http://github.com/kgorman/mongo/blob/master/GNU-AGPL-3.0.txt). I am not an expert on this specific license so I can’t give you the legal low down. But your point is a good one, how about sending a note to the mongoDB email list @: http://groups.google.com/group/mongodb-user

]]> By: Alex Popescu http://www.kennygorman.com/wordpress/?p=495&cpage=1#comment-2173 Alex Popescu Tue, 02 Mar 2010 23:23:16 +0000 http://www.kennygorman.com/wordpress/?p=495#comment-2173 Hi Kenny, It's great to hear that your tool got into MongoDB, but this raises a couple of questions related to licensing. I don't know exactly what was the initial mongostat license, but I assume that now it comes with the AGPL (as MongoDB). So, that basically means that people will not be able to use it anymore in their products if they don't provide the source code. IANAL, but this AGPL thingy sounds really confusing (http://stu.mp/2010/02/why-i-hate-the-agpl.html) and I'm still trying to understand what is and what is not allowed. :- alex Hi Kenny,

It’s great to hear that your tool got into MongoDB, but this raises a couple of questions related to licensing. I don’t know exactly what was the initial mongostat license, but I assume that now it comes with the AGPL (as MongoDB). So, that basically means that people will not be able to use it anymore in their products if they don’t provide the source code. IANAL, but this AGPL thingy sounds really confusing (http://stu.mp/2010/02/why-i-hate-the-agpl.html) and I’m still trying to understand what is and what is not allowed.

:- alex

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