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That's kinda why the AGPL is good; it lets non-businesses and open-source companies use it and encourages closed companies to purchase a license.

• dilyevsky 4y ago
  It’s not good bc it ties survivability of a project with a single company. If company folds so does your open-source project. Also imagine if linux wouldn’t be able to receive contributions from google and other big tech
  • akvadrako 4y ago
    That only works because Linux is run by customers, which the GPL covers, instead of provided as a web service. The AGPL is needed to encourage the same contributions for SASS products.
    • dilyevsky 4y ago
      > That only works because Linux is run by customers, which the GPL covers You’d be shocked to find out but linux is also run by cloud providers and offered as a service (in the form of VMs). And unfortunately because of murky water of what constitutes “derivative work” in agpl (case in point - see the title of this thread) most companies won’t ever touch agpl licensed projects