Re:The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with
by belorn on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:26PM
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Under the same meeting ask the lawyer about the linux kernel and where the border is for its license. They will likely give a similar answer, through if the company relies on selling devices with a linux kernel the risk vs reward will result in a very different decision in the end.
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Re:The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with
by nine_k on Monday July 27, 2020 @02:31PM
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GPL 2 has been tried in courts many times, and there is a consensus that Linux kernel's license applies to the kernel (publish your patches) and not applications that use the kernel. E.g. Go is shipped under a BSD license, not GPL, and sidesteps libc for quite a few APIs.
Re:The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with
by Conan_Kudo on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @06:44AM
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The Linux kernel explicitly has a user-space exception written into its license, which is why the requirement of reciprocity stops there.