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What would happen to a commercial software breakthrough if it was licensed using AGPL?
by jka 6y ago
What would happen to a commercial software breakthrough if it was licensed using AGPL?
- enriquto 6y agoWhy are you asking it hypothetically? We have many examples of that. For example, Overleaf (the online LaTeX editor) is a service based on AGPL code for which my lab pays a significant amount of money each month.
- jka 6y agoBecause I'm curious what the mindset behind "AGPL doesn't work for commercial environments" is. It's a common, recurring statement and I'm sure people have good reasons to believe it. I can guess what that thinking might be, but there's no substitute for asking.
- enriquto 6y agoYou have a list of AGPL-licensed software here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_under_the_GNU_AGPL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_under_the_GNU... The list is not at all up to date, and very incomplete, but it's better than nothing. You can see that there's quite a few well-known infrastructure projects there.