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Re:Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator w... by xxpor on Friday January 06, 2017 @06:10PM (#13341169)
>That's company policy

Yes.

I was just pointing out that regardless of modification/distribution/whatever, bigco policy is to not allow ANY AGPL code within a 10 mile radius of any computer owned by said company.

The author(s) are free to use AGPL, but there are significant downsides if they care about adoption.

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Re:Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator w... by yarrel on Friday January 06, 2017 @10:48PM (#13342282)
They care about the freedom of software users, not weird corporate policies.

Non-adoption by non-respecters of freedom isn't a downside.

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Re:Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator w... by Manishearth on Saturday January 07, 2017 @03:50PM (#13346546)
These aren't "weird corporate policies", they're very sensible. If they wish to use such software they need to be very careful in how, and track its use, and they just don't think having such a framework is worth it.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13342657 , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13342804

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Re:Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator w... by wpietri on Saturday January 07, 2017 @01:23PM (#13345663)
It's a downside if it leads to general non-adoption, either directly or because a competitor with a different license gets the market share.

I'm all for the moral stance, but moral purity in a vacuum is essentially irrelevant. Effective morality is about impact on the world. A morality that's only about the good feelings of the purist is sterile self-indulgence.

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Re:Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator w... by sjwright on Monday January 09, 2017 @05:01AM (#13355243)
Precisely. And even RMS has been known to agree with that principle.

http://lwn.net/2001/0301/a/rms-ov-license.php3

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Re:Show HN: Alacritty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator w... by webmaven on Wednesday January 11, 2017 @03:56PM (#13377418)
> bigco policy is to not allow ANY AGPL code within a 10 mile radius of any computer owned by said company."

Wait, that seems extremely paranoid, even if only meant figuratively... Can you explain the thinking on restricting the use of AGPL'd licensed applications?

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