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For device manufacturers, GPL3 is just as onerous as AGPL. As an end user, I'd rather not use GPL3 software that has a carve out that enables the software to b
by hedora 3y ago
For device manufacturers, GPL3 is just as onerous as AGPL.
As an end user, I'd rather not use GPL3 software that has a carve out that enables the software to be used by privacy hostile service providers that routinely force-upgrade their user customers to worse versions of their systems, but that prevents people from just sticking a customized version of the software on a gizmo and selling it to me.
After all, I can least air-gap and not upgrade most gizmos.
Anyway, I wish they'd rename AGPL to GPLv4 so the infamous "or later" clause applied to it.
- leanable 3y agoAre you for or against the Affero? Depending on the side your choose, could you explain a bit more on how and why Affero helps or does not help in the 1990s purpose of original 1990 license?