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> some kind of restriction on the usage of that code is necessary to protect the developers from freeloaders That's exactly the point of the (A)GPL! It prevent
by ForHackernews 5y ago
> some kind of restriction on the usage of that code is necessary to protect the developers from freeloaders
That's exactly the point of the (A)GPL! It prevents freeloading because you have to release your contributions back to the community.
The developers on this site just hate the GPL because the lawyers at their company won't let them use those libraries.
- trasz 5y agoAre you claiming those lawyers are pulling problems out of their [..], or do you accept that there might be very real reasons for embargoing GPL, especially with many lawyers from many companies doing that?
- ForHackernews 5y agoI'm saying there's already a very obvious, decades-old established solution to the problem the parent commenter is raising. It's just an unpopular solution with devs on this board, because they actually want to be able to keep ~~freeloading~~ er, re-using community contributions at their well-paid jobs.
- HexDecOctBin 5y agoAGPL didn't serve MongoDB well, leading to SSPL.