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The author gives good reasons for preferring the GPL to BSD-style licenses, but it seems to me that there's an even better license for his ideals: the AGPL.[1]
by ggreer 11y ago
The author gives good reasons for preferring the GPL to BSD-style licenses, but it seems to me that there's an even better license for his ideals: the AGPL.[1] It fulfills the same purpose as the GPL, but it fixes loopholes such as running code on remote servers (most website back-ends).
I've yet to hear a good argument from ideals that prefers the GPL to AGPL. The latter really does give people more freedom over how they can use and modify software.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
- Gregordinary 11y agoThe author actually uses the AGPLv3 for MediaGoblin: http://mediagoblin.org/ http://mediagoblin.org/
- ggreer 11y agoThanks for the info. This confuses me. He knows about the AGPL. He uses it for his own code. Yet he doesn't even mention it in a post about his favorite license. Why?
- Gregordinary 11y agoI found that odd as well. He mentioned using the AGPL for MediaGoblin at LibrePlanet a couple years ago. Not sure why no mention now.