The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with

Re:The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with by michaelcampbell on Monday July 27, 2020 @01:37PM (#23967397)

Truth or falsehoods aside, the reason one of the places I have worked (large 10's of k's of employees, big legal staff) refused to let us use AGPL is that it had never been decided in court, and they didn't want to be the ones to foot that bill.

"No" is pretty cheap, and they were pretty good at it.

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Re:The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with by saagarjha on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:25PM (#23967920)

> "No" is pretty cheap

Now, is it really? Paying a team of software engineers to recreate every AGPL project surely isn't…

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Re:The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with by DasIch on Monday July 27, 2020 @04:20PM (#23968984)

Nobody is using every AGPL project and there aren't that many AGPL projects to begin with.

The problem is not just the risk associated with AGPL, it's also that the benefit is actually quite small. I think most companies would be a lot more willing to use AGPL, if there were any compelling projects using it.

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Re:The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with by evgen on Monday July 27, 2020 @03:39PM (#23968619)

But using a non-AGPL project is a cheap and easy solution for just about every use-case out there. If there was something special that was AGPL licensed it might matter, but there isn't so it is easy to avoid.

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