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Modified AGPLv3 removes freedoms, adds legal headaches
- josephcsible 5y ago> Section 7 states: “[i]f the Program as you received it, or any part of it, contains a notice stating that it is governed by this License along with a term that is a further restriction, you may remove that term.” > As Plaintiffs point out, however, the AGPLv3 defines “you” as the licensee, not the licensor. AGPL § 0 (“Each licensee is addressed as ‘you’”). Thus, read correctly, Sections 7 and 10 prohibit a licensee from imposing further restrictions, but do not prohibit a licensor from doing so. What an awful court decision. Section 7 is explicitly saying that the licensee can ignore extra restrictions, not just that they can't add any of their own.