MongoDB withdraws new open source license application
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2 min readMar 13, 2019
It happened quietly and over the weekend. MongoDB co-founder and CTO Eliot Horowitz logged into the Open Source Initiative’s (OSI)website and withdrew the company’s application for a Server Side Public License (SSPL.)
Here’s part of what he wrote on the bulletin board:
“We continue to believe that the SSPL complies with the Open Source definition…