Comment by giancarlostoro

24 days ago

This is effectively AGPL. If you dont plan on editing the backend for your Mattermost hosted backend thats fine, but if you do please be aware of the terms of the license.

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trueismywork  23 days ago

What restrictions does AGPL put here (Apart from the general requirements?)

  • giancarlostoro  23 days ago

    AGPL makes it so if you change code in a server those changes must be open source. Its GPL over the network basically. I remind people of it because some people might want to customize for highly proprietary needs and not realize.

    I love open source software but I also understand the need for proprietary software at the same time. It keeps your lights on and your family fed.

    • trueismywork  21 days ago

      As a nitpick, AGPL allows anyone to modify the software and serve it, while only distributing the code to the people who are being served.

      So if a AGPL DB is exposed over intranet only to a closed customer baseclosed customer base need to have the source code.

      Like what RedHat is doing.