If you are in the business of making money like minio, you may as well just use a commercial license. No business will touch AGPL, they will just opt to pay for a commercial license.
It’s not good bc it ties survivability of a project with a single company. If company folds so does your open-source project. Also imagine if linux wouldn’t be able to receive contributions from google and other big tech
In fact, I am starting to ask myself the opposite... 'Since project X is MIT-licensed, do they need my contribution at all? Probably not, their license probably brings them many high-quality corporate contributions.'
Companies are using AGPL not to benefit users or the community but to extort users and competitors into paying them. It's becoming fake open source.
They're not extorting anyone. Or is anyone having paid product "extorting" their customer?
AGPL is true open source.
Links please, also it's literally FSF and OSI approved, how come you call it fake open source?
https://github.com/minio/minio/discussions/13571#discussionc...
https://github.com/minio/minio/issues/13308#issuecomment-929...
Lets just say they have a weird take on what constitutes agpl-compliant
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If you are in the business of making money like minio, you may as well just use a commercial license. No business will touch AGPL, they will just opt to pay for a commercial license.
That's kinda why the AGPL is good; it lets non-businesses and open-source companies use it and encourages closed companies to purchase a license.
It’s not good bc it ties survivability of a project with a single company. If company folds so does your open-source project. Also imagine if linux wouldn’t be able to receive contributions from google and other big tech
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> No business will touch AGPL
That's not true, I am in contact with many business using AGPL software. (Not Minio specifically)
Some businesses choose not to touch it, but that's their losses.
In fact, I am starting to ask myself the opposite... 'Since project X is MIT-licensed, do they need my contribution at all? Probably not, their license probably brings them many high-quality corporate contributions.'
Except these "high-quality corporate contributions" are kept to themselves for corporate reasons.