I agree that there’s a serious amount of FUD around it. I think it’s at least in part because it proliferating could seriously harm Alphabet’s ability to freely

I agree that there’s a serious amount of FUD around it. I think it’s at least in part because it proliferating could seriously harm Alphabet’s ability to freely grab people’s code to incorporate in their consumer products (YouTube, G Suite, etc.) without reciprocating, and they’ve been careful to semi-subtly spread the FUD (ie. publish https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/ https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/). https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html