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> It just so happens that empowering the user also empowers competitors. IMHO copyleft licences are better for the user and permissive licences are better for
by palata 2y ago
> It just so happens that empowering the user also empowers competitors.
IMHO copyleft licences are better for the user and permissive licences are better for competitors. Still people keep going with permissive licences.
- KingMob 2y agoEhhh, Amazon offers a hosted Grafana service, which is AGPL. I'm not so sure that.
- palata 2y agoWhich means that they have to share their changes to Grafana, doesn't it?
- pabs3 2y agoThe LWN thread says that they don't, but have separate proprietary licensing and co-marketing agreements with Grafana Labs. https://lwn.net/Articles/1019686/#CommAnchor1019710 https://lwn.net/Articles/1019686/#CommAnchor1019710
- palata 2y agoThanks that interesting! And in this case it means that it's not AGPL, but proprietary. Which kind of proves my point: they are apparently paying Grafana Labs to avoid the constraints of AGPL. If Grafana was permissive, they would surely not pay.
- KingMob 2y agoThat's not what I'm getting at. Amazon hosting Grafana means it's not only "permissive licences are better for competitors". Copyleft licenses don't present obstacle to competitors that people seem to believe.