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> Cloud services are harder, since they don't involve distributing copies of the work, so an EULA like the AGPL is needed instead of just a copyright/patent/tra
by tzs 3y ago
> Cloud services are harder, since they don't involve distributing copies of the work, so an EULA like the AGPL is needed instead of just a copyright/patent/trademark license.
Cloud services can also eat the lunch of companies that are using AGPL. AGPL just makes it so that the service's fork of the code is available to the company and the company can incorporate it or part of it if they wish.
But in most cases I don't think it is being able to add proprietary things to their fork is what causes people to pick the service's offering over the company's offering when they decide they need to purchase support. Most will go with the cloud service's offering even if it has no proprietary things added because it is integrated with the other things they are using at the cloud service, and can be added to their existing support plan with that service.