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Thanks!

Honestly, I might put this up to an open-source vote.

I personally learn towards the MIT and the ZLIB license, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlib_License .

However I also know a lot of other databases are doing AGPL, I think for monetary reasons. Which :/ I might also want to consider.

But as I said, I honestly think this should be a combination of community decision.

Could people reply back with what license they'd like?

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If you want everyone to use your database, MIT or ZLIB are clearly superior. For you(r company) that would limit your monetization options to support and similar, which is certainly not ideal.

If you value free software (as opposed to open source), AGPL is a good option and allows you to sell more permissive licenses to everyone who needs one.

If you actually want to make money with this, it's really a question of your business model. I would use it with either license.

Why would using AGPL imply not valuing open source?

Because open source guys value having more people using your code, and using AGPL discourages some people from using it because they can't keep their modifications private?

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