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Does the AGPL prevent anyone from running this on their own server for themselves (or not, since the source is provided by ddosify)?
by foolswisdom 3y ago
Does the AGPL prevent anyone from running this on their own server for themselves (or not, since the source is provided by ddosify)?
- mdaniel 3y agoNo, it's a true FOSS license and not one of the scammy ones in the news of late, but some organizations straight up ban AGPL[1] because it is network viral in a way that hasn't been tested in the courts, so best to just avoid the hassle I didn't mean my comment in a disparaging way, just trying to answer a FAQ on any such "Show HN" that uses the term "open source" but doesn't otherwise specify. Often that means it's a scam license, and I find that to be doubly true when the submitter craftily omits any mention of the license, but it is not the case here and I applaud the use of an actual FOSS license, even if that means I personally don't get to enjoy using this software 1: e.g. https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl... (discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31176071 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31176071 and likely a ton of others, too)
- atomicnumber3 3y agoNo, AGPL essentially just prevents someone from SaaS-ing your GPL project as a way around the license. It makes it so that if you can reach the code over the network, it's source has to be available to you.