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		sofixa on Nov 5, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: We bootstrapped our open source Google Analytics a... That's not entirely correct. Elastic and Mongo weren't using AGPL in the first place, they had MIT/Apache type licenses. Generally we're seeing open core/source startups moving to AGPL or proprietary source available licenses (Grafana, Sentry to name a few more).

rustc on Nov 5, 2021 [–]

MongoDB was using AGPL before they created and switched to SSPL [1]. You're right about ElasticSearch, they were Apache-2.0 before creating and switching to the SSPL + Elastic License dual license [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MongoDB#Licensing

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasticsearch

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