The HN "past" link doesn't work in this case but there was extensive discussion about this article last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23966778 htt

The HN "past" link doesn't work in this case but there was extensive discussion about this article last year: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23966778 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23966778 tldr: The top comments mentioned corporate lawyers concluding AGPL ("corresponding source") was too much of a risk and subsequent replies debate about it being FUD. I also ran across an blog article (by an attorney who writes about open source licensing) saying AGPL can be hard to understand: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/24/Reading-AGPL.html https://writing.kemitchell.com/2021/01/24/Reading-AGPL.html