I have a question: has anyone simply forked MongoDB from the time just before the license change? Owners of open source software can change the license, but can they change the license of old code?
IANAL, but this happens fairly often within the community. My loose understanding is that code released under the AGPL remains licensed under the AGPL; the license can't just be retroactively revoked like that. The company may require that active forks adopt a new name and branding due to trademark disputes, but this is a different matter not covered by the license.
I was not able to find an active fork; the closest thing I'm finding so far is here, but it hasn't seen any activity for 7 months:
Very cool, thank you. It seems like the original AGPL license should have worked for companies like MongoDB. But, their company, they can do what they like and lose users.
