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Android is the best argument for the AGPL.
by sedachv 12y ago
Android is the best argument for the AGPL.
- RRRA 12y agoEveryone (MacOS X, Android, Jolla, etc.) is building there products, thanks to free Software, (GPL & not GPL) and than adding proprietary wrappers to lock things down & making sure they use non-Copyleft licences for anything else they add as "open"-ed. Free Software is about governance, community, open development, etc: not only the licence! These company are just grabbing what is now infrastructure built by everyone to sell it back to everyone, locked down, and doing code dumping with not-so-open development and communities to trap people who don't get it. So, since the free and open aspect could be built with Public Domain or non-copyleft licences by a community or company doing the right thing (tm), I agree, AGPL "all the things!" is the best way to eliminate part of this problem. (Yes, they can always relicence the code if they own it all, but that's the community & open development part that is harder to evaluate...)