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Is there any uptake in AGPL use? Besides perhaps the initial spike near AGPL creation, any popular opensource library using AGPL since?

by nnx 4y ago

wmf 4y ago
Since it's in the news today... Mastodon.
sauruk 4y ago
Mold (the linker) uses it
crb 4y ago
There is a recent uptake in companies who want to make sure that their software isn't 'resold' by hosting companies (or book shops). They license the software under AGPL, so it's still "free", and can be used by individuals (or carefully by companies), but also have a commercial license available. You can't make "Hosted $THING" without a partnership. Grafana is the biggest example that comes to mind: https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/grafana-loki-tempo-relicensing-to-agplv3/ https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/grafana-loki-tempo-relic...
- boris 4y ago
  This is inaccurate: you can definitely make "Hosted $THING" under AGPL. What you cannot do is modify said THING, host that (more precisely, make it publicly available as a service; if it's private, it's still ok), and keep the changes private.
- josephcsible 4y ago
  > They license the software under AGPL, so it's still "free" What's with the scare quotes?
SllX 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_under_the_GNU_AGPL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_under_the_GNU... Some of the ones on that list I didn’t know used AGPL: Anki, Bitwarden, Ghostscript, EdX, Diaspora, Mastodon, Searx, Signal’s server code. So a fair few from different time periods. Obviously doesn’t have the adoption rate of more popular open source licenses.
jabl 4y ago
Nextcloud comes to mind. Most other AGPL usage I'm aware of is using it as a poison pill license in order to sell a proprietary license.
ternaryoperator 4y ago
iText, probably the most widely used non-Adobe PDF library, uses the AGPL.
enriquto 4y ago
> any popular opensource library using AGPL since? Not quite a library, but overleaf (the online LaTeX editor) is pretty big in the scientific community and it's agpl. https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf

Is there any uptake in AGPL use? Besides perhaps the initial spike near AGPL creation, any popular opensource library using AGPL since?

by nnx 4y ago

Is there any uptake in AGPL use? Besides perhaps the initial spike near AGPL creation, any popular opensource library using AGPL since?

wmf 4y ago

Since it's in the news today... Mastodon.

sauruk 4y ago

Mold (the linker) uses it

crb 4y ago

There is a recent uptake in companies who want to make sure that their software isn't 'resold' by hosting companies (or book shops). They license the software under AGPL, so it's still "free", and can be used by individuals (or carefully by companies), but also have a commercial license available. You can't make "Hosted $THING" without a partnership. Grafana is the biggest example that comes to mind: https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/grafana-loki-tempo-relicensing-to-agplv3/ https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/grafana-loki-tempo-relic...

boris 4y ago
This is inaccurate: you can definitely make "Hosted $THING" under AGPL. What you cannot do is modify said THING, host that (more precisely, make it publicly available as a service; if it's private, it's still ok), and keep the changes private.
josephcsible 4y ago
> They license the software under AGPL, so it's still "free" What's with the scare quotes?

SllX 4y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_under_the_GNU_AGPL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_under_the_GNU... Some of the ones on that list I didn’t know used AGPL: Anki, Bitwarden, Ghostscript, EdX, Diaspora, Mastodon, Searx, Signal’s server code. So a fair few from different time periods. Obviously doesn’t have the adoption rate of more popular open source licenses.

jabl 4y ago

Nextcloud comes to mind. Most other AGPL usage I'm aware of is using it as a poison pill license in order to sell a proprietary license.

ternaryoperator 4y ago

iText, probably the most widely used non-Adobe PDF library, uses the AGPL.

enriquto 4y ago

> any popular opensource library using AGPL since? Not quite a library, but overleaf (the online LaTeX editor) is pretty big in the scientific community and it's agpl. https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf https://github.com/overleaf/overleaf