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> where developers cannot use AGPL in large enterprises developers who cannot use AGPL in large enterprises are probably forbidden to use non-open-source softw
by sqrt17 8y ago
> where developers cannot use AGPL in large enterprises
developers who cannot use AGPL in large enterprises are probably forbidden to use non-open-source software distributed under a shared-source license that allows no commercial use.
A non-charitable reading would be "we want mindshare and adoption from developers in large enterprises who will then buy or software rather than admit that they were unable to understand our terms and assumed our software was liberal open source".
To make things more concrete - while GPL allows unrestricted internal use, the horror scenario would be the contractor who is brought in to work on software including GPLd code and who may have right to receiving the source of everything (as a "derived work"). How is CommonsClause-licensed shared source dealing with large enterprises employing contractors for working with their software? Is the contractor in breach of CommonsClause but the large enterprise isn't?