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Re:License Changes for Confluent Platform by jfim on Friday December 14, 2018 @12:08PM (#18682400)
The AGPL isn't well defined.

Say that your SaaS product to share pictures of cats uses database X, which is AGPL licensed. Depending on how you read the license, your SaaS product could have to be licensed as AGPL. Or not.

That ambiguity is why many companies won't touch the AGPL with a mile long pole.

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Re:License Changes for Confluent Platform by detaro on Friday December 14, 2018 @12:23PM (#18682561)
If that were the only issue, all these new licenses could just write a clarified version of AGPL that stays within the OSI definition.
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