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		amyjess on Jan 10, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon DocumentDB, with MongoDB compatibility > Realistically, the next step you will see, unless something changes, is that they will start going after people for API duplication. They have precedent (currently) on their side in the US. IANAL, but since they already released the API as open-source under the Apache 2.0 license, this avenue is closed off to them.

metheus on Jan 10, 2019 [–]

The API is implemented on the server side; the licensing of the MongoDB drivers is irrelevant.

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