This makes sense, and I believe you, but lawyers being lawyers, I don't think any corporate legal team is going to even bother with trying. Easier to say "no".
Source: 1 data point; the company I work for's legal team just said "no".
Same fight here, but we're digging in our heels and bothering to convince the internal lawyer that it's not a problem. We'll win, but it takes time we'd rather not have to spend.
We'll win, but it takes time we'd rather not have to spend.
In a fraction of the time, you could convert to Postgres, with the added bonus that doing so will also be massively more fun than arguing with lawyers. Below, you mention professionalism too.
The odds of anyone here ending up in court over licence terms for using Mongo as part of their backend, are so vanishingly small that to actually decide against Mongo on the basis of that chance amounts to professional malpractice.
