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Mongo is a different beast, because the mongo client has a GPL exception which allows your code, that is linked to the mongo client, to use a different license. This is a friendly exception, that the mongo developers allowed. Without that exception everything using mongo even over the Internet would automatically also be AGPL licensed.



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