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The interesting part about AGPL is that I have seen many cases where people didn't choose it because they believe they can enforce it. Often the thinking was m
by dathinab 3y ago
The interesting part about AGPL is that I have seen many cases where people didn't choose it because they believe they can enforce it.
Often the thinking was more on the line of maybe it's legally not fully sound, but it's sound enough to not make us lose sales, i.e.:
- a dishonest company could just secretly use it and we wouldn't know, so we don't care that much about that aspect
- a humongous company could be in a position where they think they can lawyer themself out of their AGPL usage in the US, but such a company has a lot of other ways too and isn't our target audience anytime soon, so if worse comes to worse we just offer them a cheap enough (no support included) license so that they prefer that over a court case
- most companies which do prefer going to court over buying a license probably also wouldn't use our software if buying a license would be the only way, so not really lost sells