This feels very much like a distinction between letter of the law and spirit of the law. I knew a guy who once forked a very popular browser extension (you've d

This feels very much like a distinction between letter of the law and spirit of the law. I knew a guy who once forked a very popular browser extension (you've definitely heard of it), that was copyleft-licensed. When I asked him where the repo is, he said it was not publicly available, but that the lawyers have assured him that he is not breaking any laws because the source code is available, via the inspect-extension feature of the browser. This answer has always felt problematic, to me. In part, I feel like these legally-correct strategies and tactics tend be corrosive. In fact, this is exactly the kind of thing that drives projects like Sentry and Mongo to dump open source, and use EULAs instead. Not only is pgrust a license-based fork (which always runs the risk of splitting the community) it is also a language-based fork (which also runs the risk of splitting the community). In fact, the only silver lining here, is that you went straight for the AGPL, instead of MIT (thus preventing a _second_ license based fork).