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> This license hasn't been battle tested in a court room that much. This is kind of considered a feature, isn't it? Every time a disagreement is taken to court
by madeofpalk 3y ago
> This license hasn't been battle tested in a court room that much.
This is kind of considered a feature, isn't it? Every time a disagreement is taken to court, it's a failure of all sides. Courts are expensive and a time waste, so we create contracts that avoid all of that to try to get parties to work together without the courts. AGPL has been enforceable, in general, because of all the case law around general copyright law.
- jillesvangurp 3y agoDepends if you want a license you can rely on on both sides with zero ambiguity on what is and isn't enforcable, having a few court cases confirm this is nice. The lack of court cases has a perfectly reasonable explanation: no serious company with a legal department would bother to touch anything licensed this way. The companies most likely to be able to represent themselves in a court are also the most likely to have a policy of just blanket banning anything with this license. As a means of alienating end users, the AGPL is an enormous success. As a means of actually enforcing what it says, it's largely unproven.