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I think it is likely it was the other way around. MongoDB caught wind of what AWS was about to release and changed the license.

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Does that even apply? This is api-compatible, but doesn't appear to be using any actual MongoDB code.

It seems like Amazon may think so, with this line:

> Amazon DocumentDB implements the Apache 2.0 open source MongoDB 3.6 API by emulating the responses that a MongoDB client expects from a MongoDB server

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