There is nothing wrong with wanting to be compensated for your work, but for people like myself which use a cloud managed DB solution (GCP CloudSQL PostgreSQL) it means something like this would never be available.

I consider AGPL a poison pill in my work. That is not true with a suitable commercial license, although I expect a lot more commercial product (support/features/etc). As you note, your objective is to prevent commercialization of your software, but radically speeding up analytics is primarily a concern of large organizations so it seems like a mismatch in purpose.

> which use a cloud managed DB solution (GCP CloudSQL PostgreSQL) it means something like this would never be available

That's up to GCP then. I'm sure OP would be willing to license pgrust to them for an appropriate price.

The whole point is to force the cloud providers to go through a contract negotiation for licensing rather than keep the door open for them. Nothing prevents the parent project from specially licensing to individual parties.

what exactly are your concern of using agpl db server? It doesn't force you to make rest of your system agpl.

>we would be happy to dual-license under a commercial license