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Re:The Commons Clause doesn't help the commons by flukus on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @01:20AM (#17957348)
Am I correct in thinking that what we're missing is an "ALGPL", a version of the AGPL that only requires modifications to be distributed and not everything linking to it? At the moment the AGPL seems to be the only common license that requires modifications behind a corporate firewall to be published but the copy left nature makes it corporate cancer.
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Re:The Commons Clause doesn't help the commons by stubborn_d0nkey on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:54AM (#17957891)
You don't have to make it available to the public if you only use it internally. You only ever have to share it with the people who use it. If it's only internally used that means you don't have to share it.

Even if it's externally used that doesn't mean it has to be freely available. If you require a paid subscription to access the AGPLed software then you only have to provide the source to those that have paid for the subscription.

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Re:The Commons Clause doesn't help the commons by jimktrains2 on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:12AM (#17959843)
> If you require a paid subscription to access the AGPLed software then you only have to provide the source to those that have paid for the subscription.

While true, there's no restriction on the subscribers making the code public.

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Re:The Commons Clause doesn't help the commons by icebraining on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @10:55AM (#17960259)
True (and one can't add it, as the license procludes doing so), but in my experience working for a company that distributed most of its software under the A/LGPL licenses to paying customers only, they aren't really interested in doing that. We never had one of our modules being publicly distributed by a third-party.
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Re:The Commons Clause doesn't help the commons by andrewshadura on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @02:28AM (#17957560)
It would make no difference since for most users publishing the common part of the code base isn’t an issue, but publishing the modifications is.
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