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Re:Subsistence Programming by cthor on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:21PM (#20871307)
AGPL closes the SAAS loophole. Outside of that, what "private extraction of the commons" is left to cover?

Parity license looks like a super aggressive and untested version of AGPL. I can't see what benefit using it over AGPL would be.

Prosperity license is at odds with the point of free software and almost certainly untenable.

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Re:Subsistence Programming by zzzcpan on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:27PM (#20871367)
> AGPL closes the SAAS loophole.

It doesn't.

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Re:Subsistence Programming by cthor on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @05:43PM (#20871491)
Can you clarify? That's like the whole point of the AGPL. It not doing that would be quite surprising.
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Re:Subsistence Programming by kemitchell on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @06:36PM (#20871972)
I blogged about this here:

https://writing.kemitchell.com/2018/11/04/Copyleft-Bust-Up.h...

If you're interested in network-copyleft more generally, make sure you compare AGPL to OSL:

https://opensource.org/licenses/OSL-3.0

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