Comment by akvadrako

3 years ago

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