> OTOH going with AGPL usually means that no corporation will ever touch your software with a ten-foot pole, so corporate contributions to the codebase will be

> OTOH going with AGPL usually means that no corporation will ever touch your software with a ten-foot pole, so corporate contributions to the codebase will be zero (unlike GPL software). As a practical matter, I think that you're right — but I think that this is in many cases quite short-sighted of the corporations who choose to go this route, in much the same way that for many years they resisted shipping GPLed software to customers. One can make profit on AGPLed server software in exactly the same fashion that one can make profit on GPLed client software. If Amazon offered an AGPL Redis, they'd still be able to build whatever they want around it, and keep that proprietary. I'd still find value in paying them for their running-Redis-in-AWS. They'd still make money. Their competitors would get a Redis … the same way that they currently get a Redis. But antirez and the rest of us would get to share in their performance patches &c. Would that alone make him as rich as he deserves? No, probably not. Would it alone even enable him to make a meager living? No, probably not. But it'd be better than a BSD license, which requires very little indeed.