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Re:Commons Clause by Boulth on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @03:24AM (#17816986)
> Given how long she has been doing this, I would simply not believe that she missed any of the issues I mentioned (the ambiguity, the AGPL/GPL/etc issues).

Agreed on that, based on just reading one of her books. I wonder why didn't they choose AGPL.

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Re:Commons Clause by sciurus on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @10:50AM (#17819073)
It looks like they were using AGPL before, but now they are switching to Commons Clause. See the history of the RedisSearch license, for example.

https://github.com/RedisLabsModules/RediSearch/commits/maste...

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Re:Commons Clause by Boulth on Wednesday August 22, 2018 @02:39PM (#17820869)
Yep, now I see this vague explanation on https://commonsclause.com :

> Why not AGPL?

> The AGPL was drafted in a different era where Cloud ecosystem was not nearly as well-developed. After deep legal analysis, many of the AGPL’s features were determined to be insufficient towards some of the requirements modern projects face.

> For example, much of the value for cloud-based software comes outside of the actual code (i.e. hosting) thereby nullifying many of the incentives to enforce source-availability. In addition, many of the AGPL's features can be more restrictive towards an end user that wishes to incorporate software into a new work, which makes a source-available license with additional grants more permissive.

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