diff --git a/dosp-survey.ltx b/dosp-survey.ltx index a6ee161d760ed13b385149b3a9c0369ccbc3819b..de07cd4d6ca51a5241077b448a0b961ff7a92968 100644 --- a/dosp-survey.ltx +++ b/dosp-survey.ltx @@ -300,6 +300,19 @@ mostly found in projects that opt for an ongoing DOSP strategy. % happened? Has it happened repeatedly? Is it something investors are % especially concerned about? +% Some people say Amazon hosted a MongoDB-as-a-service product which +% prompted MongoDB's relicensing from AGPL to SSPL in 2018. (Then in +% 2019 Amazon announced DocumentDB, a reimplementation of portions of +% the MongoDB API, which Amazon provides exclusively as a service +% within AWS -- no source code.) +% So far I haven't found any documentation of what AWS had in terms +% of MongoDB-as-a-service prior to 2019. Most search results relate +% to the announcement of DocumentDB in 2019, but that seems to be +% Amazon's reaction to the SSPL relicensing. What, if anything, was +% AWS doing before 2019 that may have prompted that relicensing? +% +% People also mentioned Elasticsearch and OpenSearch - I haven't +% looked into that. \subsection{Bounty and Sponsorship Delays}\label{bounty}