Lack of leadership in open source results in source-available licenses
<i>&gt; &quot;It hijacks open-source APIs and places them on top of its own proprietary solutions, thereby siphoning off customers from the open-source project to its own proprietary solution, as it did with the MongoDB APIs.&quot;</i><p>Basically, there is no such thing as an &quot;Open Source API&quot;. APIs are not software, and we&#x27;ve already seen the damage that treating APIs as software (for copyright purposes) can do.<p>The proper abstraction for APIs (and protocols, and file-formats, etc.) is the <i>standard</i>, which ideally admits the possibility of multiple interoperable implementations, both proprietary and open source (patents being the joker in the deck, unfortunately).