It's the obligatory copyleft is not free software astroturfing comment. Prompt is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611571 https://news.ycombinator.

It's the obligatory copyleft is not free software astroturfing comment. Prompt is here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611571 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37611571 -- More seriously and charitably though, affero is vaguely scary because there's a (perhaps misunderstood, but I can understand) feeling that if you cooperate with it in any way in the backend and then a value-added product of that interaction makes it to a user of yours then you're up for copyright infringement. This isn't a reason not to release under affero, nor is it a bad thing that entities producing non-free software need to take care what they leverage, but I can see how the decision could be made to avoid using agpl style software whereever possible to err on the side of caution. A good example is ghostscript. At what point does an app converting PDFs to images (to display thumbnails, for example) as a small part of its workflow become an aggregate of that free software? According to the faq it ends up being a fairly subjective question of form and intent. Syscalls or static linking? Etc.