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Exchange MongoDB with a Free Software database management software #59

Open bernhardreiter opened 2 years ago

bernhardreiter commented 2 years ago

Since a few years the license of MongoDB has changed and is not a Free Software (or Open Source) license anymore, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Public_License:

the SSPL is not recognized as free software by multiple parties, including the Open Source Initiative (OSI) and multiple major Linux distributions

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB#MongoDB_Community_Server_2

As of October 2018, MongoDB is released under the Server Side Public License (SSPL)

As the MongoDB is an essential component of factile, the full solution is not Open Source (with all drawbacks). Maybe a different database that is Free Software can be used instead.

asinghal commented 2 years ago

thank you for bringing this up. I will explore alternatives and update