The AGPL, like the GPL, does not restrict your Four Freedoms (unlimited use, modification, distribution, and distribution of modifications). Both, however, requ

The AGPL, like the GPL, does not restrict your Four Freedoms (unlimited use, modification, distribution, and distribution of modifications). Both, however, require you to distribute source code and sublicense when certain conditions are met. The conditions are just different: GPL requires that you fulfill the copyleft when you give people a copy of the program while AGPL expands that to making it available over a network. Both of these ultimately let you have the same Freedoms as long as you don't take action to restrict anyone else's. Whether or not a copyleft can be considered to be Free is a long-standing argument between the "GNU" and "BSD" schools of thought, albeit the former has long since won out in the broader marketplace of Free Software. I personally hold copyleft as Free, because the conditions that you have to satisfy in order to exercise your freedoms are marginal. In contrast, Polyform and TimescaleDB place a whole host of permanent restrictions on user freedom. It's not "oh you need to give someone the source if you're also giving them a binary", it's "you can't ever host this on a cloud server without paying us". You are defining a particular use of the software that only you can enjoy and nobody else can.