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0 pointsthe_mitsuhiko1y ago0 comments

In practice there is because the copyright holder will retain the exclusive rights (via CLA or else) to distribute the product under preferable and AGPL incompatible terms. This is not an “everybody is equal” situation.

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goodpoint1y ago

No, anybody is free to fork any codebase under AGPL and also free to contribute to the original projects under a CLA if that's what they want.

Users are free to use the version under AGPL, there is no poison pill.

ezekg1y ago

It's also surrounded by FUD which is why a lot of enterprises, i.e. Google, won't touch AGPL with a ten-foot pole.

OSS startups use this to their advantage to push enterprises to purchase commercial licenses.

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