Comment by mhitza
4 hours ago
> which can just technically run it on their servers without too much modifications or release the modifications and still compete against the original AGPL party
Sounds like you want "monopoly as a license" :)
Big companies will rather ignore your project than use an AGPL licensed product. For them it's just not worth the hassle.
Maybe 1 out a 1 billion software is so revolutionary that licenses be damned. But maybe we should temper our expectations a bit around the software we build!
Interesting, I might write my software under AGPL but still I guess some questions arise as if sure the big companies might not use my project but some smaller companies can still create an competing product.
As an example immich is an AGPL based software which has its own instance and then https://pixelunion.eu (I think gives more free stuff like 16 gig instance etc) and then competes with immich itself
They can do this because they release any changes they make or they don't change it that much .
> Sounds like you want "monopoly as a license" :)
What I want is if someone uses my open source product and then uses it to create an competing product, I am under no obligation to release it under a foss and much rather then release it under an source available license