MongoDB 1.3.3 (devel) was released today. My tool called mongostat has been incorporated into mongo1.3.3 and changed from python to C++. So further development will come inside the mongodb distribution itself. Also of note is new slave lag for replication. Changelog here.
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
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