It does seem a fairly big loophole that you can completely ignore the network condition if you do whatever customisation you need without "modifying" the softwa

It does seem a fairly big loophole that you can completely ignore the network condition if you do whatever customisation you need without "modifying" the software. I wonder then how courts would interpret "modification" - say I put a proxy that rewrites the HTML in front of an AGPL server and with that proxy I replace or supplement lots of features - in the eyes of a court did I modify the software, or not? Surprisingly the AGPL actually includes the qualifier "in a manner that requires copyright permission" - so I have to think that they've cut this out from their definition.