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As a service operator, why would I want to choose software licensed this way?
by confused78 5y ago
As a service operator, why would I want to choose software licensed this way?
- ryankemper 5y agoAs an operator you're always making a tradeoff between the "negatives" of a license and the "positives" enabled by the actual software. So for one example, the recent (bait and) switch of Elasticsearch to SSPL effectively means that for many actual real-world users of Elasticsearch, the benefits of staying on the official Elastic branch has ceased to be worth the costs of the license when your alternative is running FOSS Elasticsearch/Opensearch. So to answer your actual question - presumably as an operator you want to use the AGPL-licensed code more than you want to avoid those same negatives of AGPL.
- arcticbull 5y agoThat's exactly why I license everything I open-source MIT/Apache.
- rakoo 5y agoBecause what you're offering is a service, and not someone else's software. Your added value is not actually in the code or the cute pictures; it's being available, having a low latency, allowing people with no tech knowledge to take part in the discussion, building a relation based on mutual trust rathet than serfdom. It's fundamentally the difference between a user and a consumer.