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The application service provider loophole lets Amazon do that with the GPL software today. GNU Core Utils would need to be relicensed as AGPL to prevent it. h
by ksherlock 3y ago
The application service provider loophole lets Amazon do that with the GPL software today. GNU Core Utils would need to be relicensed as AGPL to prevent it.
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html
- rakoo 3y agoThe AGPL is for services accessed through the network. In the specific example above, it was about a set of utils available by default on a VM, which is closer to what the GPL covers (it's the same thing as the Amazon Linux that they must make available, really)