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A comment on Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores. Parent comment

Re:Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed sof... by woah on Thursday June 06, 2019 @03:45PM (#20118322)
That is the intent of the AGPL, right? Presumably if there was something under AGPL that was good enough, your company would open source everything so they could use it.
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Re:Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed sof... by Drdrdrq on Thursday June 06, 2019 @03:56PM (#20118441)
Or pay commercial license, thus supporting the project.
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Re:Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed sof... by LinuxBender on Thursday June 06, 2019 @04:35PM (#20118868)
My limited understanding is that it gets substantially more complicated than that, as it pertains to 3rd party liabilities, obligations and what not. I am not a lawyer so I am not entirely sure what risks they are avoiding. Maybe it really is all about money. I just know they won't budge.
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