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But AGPL & LGPL still don't prohibit commercial use do they? They impose obligations on those using the code to--potentially-- release their own code, but comme

But AGPL & LGPL still don't prohibit commercial use do they? They impose obligations on those using the code to--potentially-- release their own code, but commercial use in & of itself isn't prohbited. Again, I think GitHub is going against the spirit of these licenses and should behave differently. What I'm trying to do in this discussion is simply explore the limitations within the letter of the license. Basically the boundary between being legal, and being legal but still wrong in some other sense. Consider it my exploration of the ethical constraints vs. legal constraints.

jraph 5y ago
You can use GPL code commercially, as long as you release what needs to be released as GPL for the AGPL, that's probably your entire codebase. You cannot use AGPL code in non-AGPL codebase or as a library in a non-AGPL. Same for LGPL, except you can use LGPL code as a dynamic library in a non-GPL codebase, as long as you redistribute modifications to the LGPL code. You can sell *GPL software or services around it.