> Affero LGPL Yes, just the other day I was thinking over licensing options and realized this was needed too. The common way around it is to just grant an exce

> Affero LGPL Yes, just the other day I was thinking over licensing options and realized this was needed too. The common way around it is to just grant an exception like Mongo did with their driver. Also, the Java world has been granting a classpath exception to GPL for ages. However, many people confuse AGPL for this non-existant Affero LGPL because they think that they can use an AGPL library in their proprietary code. I believe Mongo has contributed to this confusion but that ultimately the lack of this alternative license is mostly to blame. Regarding the rest of your post I disagree but more words explaining the value of GPL have been written than code :) so I'll not address that.