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AGPL seems like a completely logical extension of the GPL. Being in favour of one and not the other seems hypocritical to me. edit: I just looked it up on the

by serge2k 10y ago

AGPL seems like a completely logical extension of the GPL. Being in favour of one and not the other seems hypocritical to me. edit: I just looked it up on the GNU site. > However, some companies that develop and rely upon free software consider this requirement to be too burdensome. They want to avoid code with this requirement, and expressed concern about the administrative costs of checking code for this additional requirement So much for user freedom being #1.

greenshackle2 10y ago
You already have to check the license of any code you use, not sure how this is an extra burden. You just have to decide once upfront if the particular project will be AGPL. At work some clients don't want the extra burden of the network distribution clause, when that's the case we don't use AGPL code; but that's precisely the point - the authors don't want them to be able to use the code on their server without sharing.