Comment by actionfromafar

I think that language is meant for the case where someone takes an AGPL programs, slaps another restriction on it, and sends it along.

The last person in the chain can disregard the extra "conditions".

But this only works if someone distributed it under (only) the AGPL in the first. In the specific case with the software we are talking about now, that is not the case. It was originally distributed under this almost-AGPL.

But yes, the wording inside the AGPL makes it extra confusing exactly. It reads like those test where the instruction is "before you do anything, read all the questions".