Comment by dilyevsky
3 years ago
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.
> That only works because Linux is run by customers, which the GPL covers
You’d be shocked to find out but linux is also run by cloud providers and offered as a service (in the form of VMs).
And unfortunately because of murky water of what constitutes “derivative work” in agpl (case in point - see the title of this thread) most companies won’t ever touch agpl licensed projects