> small players who can’t afford to spend time or money in understanding these things Most of them can afford it, since it's part of the cost of doing business

> small players who can’t afford to spend time or money in understanding these things Most of them can afford it, since it's part of the cost of doing business. Most European businesses were already regulated by similar rules with the Loi informatique et libertés in France, and the Datenschutzgesetz in Germany. But since the maximum fines were smaller, everybody was breaking the law. The main issue is not that they can't afford it, the issue is that they don't want to do it. I've worked for 3 different small businesses which were happy to use free-of-charge AGPL libraries in their main SaaS product. And when I mentioned that we should remove AGPL libraries or release our entire codebase under AGPL, what I got was "we'll look into this later". This is not "i can't afford it", this is "i'm too lazy/incompetent to make time for it"