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Re:Toward Copyleft Equality for All by kazinator on Monday January 20, 2020 @05:06PM (#22102470)
If I spin my own server, why would I care what anyone else has done with their server, code-wise? Does everyone in the world who has publicly installed that server owe me a copy of their source code, even if what I run and use is strictly my own server built from the upstream code?

By the way, the AGPL3 definition of "propagate" looks exactly the same as that of the the regular GPL3. Operating software as a server doesn't fall under "propagate".

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Re:Toward Copyleft Equality for All by dredmorbius on Monday January 20, 2020 @06:24PM (#22102912)
If you're competing with a service, it means that you're not going to suffer disadvantage based on the coding / development capabilities of your competitor. What they produce is going to be something that's available to your own deployment.

For self-service, this means that you're not locked out of the development capabilities of the service you've left -- though that arguably creates a free-rider problem for that service.

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