> My understanding would have been that AGPL means all code that interfaces with the database (i.e. all code that uses ReQL) must also be AGPL.
The client drivers are licensed separately under the Apache license. Only the database server itself is AGPL. Read the last question on the rethinkdb.com FAQ: https://rethinkdb.com/faq/
Oh, absolutely. That is why I said "intuition". It doesn't matter what the license actually means. It only matters that it's a huge red flag that may prevent people from investigating further.