Comment by tensor
3 years ago
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.
3 years ago
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
That only works because Linux is run by customers, which the GPL covers, instead of provided as a web service. The AGPL is needed to encourage the same contributions for SASS products.
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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.