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Red Hat gets heebie-jeebies over MongoDB's T&Cs squeeze: NoSQL database dropped from RHEL 8B over license

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‘The Server Side Public License v1 does not meet standards’
MongoDB justified its decision last October to shift the free version of its NoSQL database software, MongoDB Community Server, from the open-source GNU Affero General Public License to the not-quite-so-open Server Side Public License (SSPL) by arguing that cloud providers sell open-source software as a service without giving back.
The following month, and not widely noticed until this week, Red Hat said it would no longer include MongoDB in version 8 of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The removal notice came in the release notes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Beta 8.0.
Under section 4.7, the release notes say, “Note that the NoSQL MongoDB database server is not included in RHEL 8.0 Beta because it uses the Server Side Public License (SSPL).”
Richard Fontana, senior commercial counsel at Red Hat, in a statement emailed to The Register, explained that Red Hat works with communities like the Fedora Project and supports a broad range of licenses that reflect community consensus about what is legitimately open source.
“The Fedora Project has for over a decade taken an influential role in determining whether licenses found in upstream software meet prevailing community standards for what is open source or free software,” he said.

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