This seems pointless to me. If you sell someone a piece of software with a GPL dependency, what is the risk to the customer? They're just going to use the softw

This seems pointless to me. If you sell someone a piece of software with a GPL dependency, what is the risk to the customer? They're just going to use the software, right? That's explicitly allowed by the GPL. Are they really going to modify it? Can they even modify it? Even if it was AGPL... and even if the customer modified the library, and even if they did get sued.... all three of which are vanishingly small probabilities... still all you'd have to do is release your modifications to the AGPL library. The notion that the AGPL will force you to open source your proprietary code is, as far as I can tell, completely spurious. I really think that it's just a cultural "screw the hippies" kind of a thing, which you're buying into by making these sound like rational fears. There's nothing rational about it, it's just "oh my, we'd need just thousands of lawyers for that!" bogeymen.