CaptainOSS

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   by CaptainOSS 5y ago

   after further research, you are correct that AGPLv3 is a "stronger" copyleft license. LGPL3 is a "weak" copyleft.
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   by CaptainOSS 5y ago

   AGPL is a “weak” copyleft license, not strong. It basically means not all derivatives need to be open sourced. If you modify AGPL code but never distribute it or provide it as a service over a network to users, you don’t have to provide sou
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   by CaptainOSS 5y ago

   But the point is that they acknowledge that they forked Kibana and why. It’s no different than if someone forks Apache code to form a proprietary software company. The permissive license contributed to the success of many companies. They fu
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   by CaptainOSS 5y ago

   they talk about Kibana in their Q&A: https://grafana.com/blog/2021/04/20/qa-with-our-ceo-on-relic...