Hot take, don't @ me: AGPL should never have been an OSI approved license.
The license is basically a compliance trap, and I would posit that > 99% of modified AGPL software violates the license.
This leads to a world where license enforcement is entirely up to arbitrary decisions by the copyright owner. Any contributor to an AGPL software package (without CLA) can go and mass-send C&Ds and/or request $$$, kind of like the Creative Commons copyright trolls have been doing for CC-BY violations.
Pierre Bourdon
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2024-08-16 02:16:08 UTC
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