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Why would companies purchase a license for something that nobody in their team asked for? and why would people ask for something that haven’t used? and why wo
by mikymoothrowa 4y ago
Why would companies purchase a license for something that nobody in their team asked for?
and why would people ask for something that haven’t used?
and why would people use something that is AGPL and they can’t use it anyway?
we would see a lot of AGPL projects out there if it worked the way you described
- hgs3 4y agoBusinesses seek out and use 3rd party software, whether it be proprietary or open source, because they have a need for it e.g. it solves a real world problem they have. The whole point of dual licensing is so businesses pay cash for a closed source license because they won't or can't abide by the GPL. The exchange of money for a closed-source software license is no different than the same business purchasing a license to proprietary software. At least with duel licensing they _could_ theoretically choose the copyleft license, but in practice they won't or can't.