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AGPL closes the SAAS loophole. Outside of that, what "private extraction of the commons" is left to cover? Parity license looks like a super aggressive and unt
by cthor 7y ago
AGPL closes the SAAS loophole. Outside of that, what "private extraction of the commons" is left to cover?
Parity license looks like a super aggressive and untested version of AGPL. I can't see what benefit using it over AGPL would be.
Prosperity license is at odds with the point of free software and almost certainly untenable.
- zzzcpan 7y ago> AGPL closes the SAAS loophole. It doesn't.
- cthor 7y agoCan you clarify? That's like the whole point of the AGPL. It not doing that would be quite surprising.
- kemitchell 7y agoI blogged about this here: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/04/Copyleft-Bust-Up.html#bounty https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/04/Copyleft-Bust-Up.h... If you're interested in network-copyleft more generally, make sure you compare AGPL to OSL: https://opensource.org/licenses/OSL-3.0 https://opensource.org/licenses/OSL-3.0