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This is a post about running an open source company. In other words, you have to worry about your prospective customer's lawyers objecting to your product just
by nemothekid 6y ago
This is a post about running an open source company. In other words, you have to worry about your prospective customer's lawyers objecting to your product just because it is in part AGPL. You could just upsell with a different license; but from a business model perspective that makes the distribution channel of open source irrelevant.
- enriquto 6y agoWhat you are describing sounds more like a problem with sales, or marketing, than with legal. I don't think your legal department would prefer you to use BSD instead of AGPL.
- nemothekid 6y ago>I don't think your legal department would prefer you to use BSD instead of AGPL. Google's legal department is the problem: https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/ https://opensource.google/docs/using/agpl-policy/ There's likely nothing your sales or marketing team can when Google, and companies that cargo cult Google's legal, decide not to allow your product gain a foot in the door because of its license.
- iudqnolq 6y agoThe last sentence of that policy is the whole point of a FOSS company using AGPL > In some cases, we may have alternative licenses available for AGPL licensed code. Large companies pay, others don't need to.