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As someone with an AGPL sticker on my laptop - why does that make you sad?
by atomicnumber3 4y ago
As someone with an AGPL sticker on my laptop - why does that make you sad?
- ensignavenger 4y agoI always find it confusing what I can and can't do with the entire GPL family of licenses, specifically when something is considered a "derivative" work or not. The AGPL network provision makes this an even bigger issue. It also introduces a whole new layer of uncertainty. I also have seen a trend over the years of companies who adopt AGPL not caring about the open source community around the code. This is not specific to the AGPL, and not every user of it does so, but I see it correlating more often. Many companies refuse to use AGPL licensed code... some claim their lawyers are stupid and don't know what they are doing... but it can still prevent adoption of AGPL licensed products.
- mdaniel 4y agoWhat the sibling commenter said, plus even Google with their army of lawyers is all "nope" (https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy/ https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl...), and every small company I've worked for (who don't have an army of lawyers) also forbids it So, it means that I don't get to use awesome looking toys at work because no one is going to pay the lawyer fees to find out what, exactly, we can and can't have those network requests touch I have been trying to be much more careful in commentary about this because I'm not trying to change the author's license, it's their code, and I'm not trying to get into debates about "well, it only matters if ..." because IANAL and I don't want to assume the risk, because for this situation, being wrong would be very expensive, so I just stick to Apache or MIT tools My comment wasn't a call to action, it was just crying out loud