And scaring those corps into buying instead of complying was explicitly the author’s reason[1] for choosing AGPL instead of GPL even though there was no expecta

And scaring those corps into buying instead of complying was explicitly the author’s reason[1] for choosing AGPL instead of GPL even though there was no expectation the difference would ever actually matter. I remember an SFC blog post[2] expressing distaste for such scare-tactics applications of copyleft on the part of MySQL AB in the early 2000s. (As opposed to the initial goal of copyleft, that is using a legal hack to eventually force most software to become free/libre.) This case is maybe less unpleasant, but only marginally so, I think. [1] https://gist.github.com/lleyton/9c0b75d065f37333ea9851b6cad1d1e6 https://gist.github.com/lleyton/9c0b75d065f37333ea9851b6cad1..., discussed today at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36225016 [2] https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality/ https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2020/jan/06/copyleft-equality...