> >Saas is making licenses obsolete > Exactly this. I don't see the point of, say, the AGPL because it can't possibly be enforced: Short of a whistleblower or

> >Saas is making licenses obsolete > Exactly this. I don't see the point of, say, the AGPL because it can't possibly be enforced: Short of a whistleblower or other leak, have no way of knowing if I'm connecting to AGPL software, or merely something that's API-compatible. I don't think that is people's main concern. As a developer I'd trust that most companies will honour the terms of a license, and if they don't it'd be unknowingly in most cases. It's too much of a legal risk, and not worth it in most cases. The issue is that GPL licensed software can be legally used in Saas use-cases because it needs to be distributed for the gpl to get triggered. In the case of AGPL that loophole is closed, but it's still possible to use AGPL software in a Saas product in the case where it is not used directly, basically. For example, in most cases it's legal to call an AGPL command-line application you modified from a backend service, without having to share your modifications. At least that is my understanding. Either way, my point is that the concern is about legal use-cases, not illegal ones.