How is MongoDB licensed?

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MongoDB, Inc.'s Server Side Public License (for all versions released after October 16, 2018, including patch fixes for prior versions).

Is MongoDB licensed?

Yes, MongoDB supported drivers and connectors such as the MongoDB Connector for Apache Spark are licensed under the Apache License v2. 0. All versions of MongoDB Community Server released prior to October 16, 2018 will continue to be licensed under the Free Software Foundation's GNU AGPL v3.

Can I use MongoDB commercially?

If your commercial application is just storing data in MongoDB, your customers can use either server edition. The SSPL license has important requirements if you are modifying server code or running MongoDB as a service, but does not otherwise impose usage restrictions.

Is MongoDB a GPL?

MongoDB is released under the GNU Affero General Public License. This Free Software Foundation license is fairly new, and thus we wanted to talk about how this license differs from GPL. Our goal with using AGPL is to preserve the concept of copyleft with MongoDB.

Is MongoDB free for personal use?

Is MongoDB Free? You can get started with a MongoDB developer sandbox in MongoDB Atlas for free with basic configuration options. No credit cards are required to provision a cluster, and you can use it to explore and learn more about MongoDB Atlas, the database-as-a-service platform from MongoDB.

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