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A comment on ASK HN: How Did Mint.com Use Open Source Technology To Build a $170MM Company?.

Re:ASK HN: How Did Mint.com Use Open Source Technology To Bu... by scootklein on Sunday October 17, 2010 @02:16PM (#1800976)
if you're selling code and actually shipping that code to the client AND it has open-source material (with a license requiring it, a la GPL) then you have to open source all of your material as well.

if you're running it privately theres no need in most cases.

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Re:ASK HN: How Did Mint.com Use Open Source Technology To Bu... by stipes on Sunday October 17, 2010 @02:29PM (#1801006)
Thus the reason the AGPL was created, although hardly anyone uses it (to my knowledge).
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Re:ASK HN: How Did Mint.com Use Open Source Technology To Bu... by ramanujan on Sunday October 17, 2010 @07:27PM (#1801733)
Diaspora is on the AGPL, so that Facebook won't be able to use their code.
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Re:ASK HN: How Did Mint.com Use Open Source Technology To Bu... by _delirium on Sunday October 17, 2010 @04:33PM (#1801339)
There's a reasonable number of projects using it, though not nearly as many as other licenses. Some that come to mind: Gitorious, Launchpad, OTRS, MongoDB, StatusNet.
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