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Re:The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with by tyrion on Monday July 27, 2020 @05:45PM (#23969769)
Wouldn't it be a good idea to "fix" the AGPL in order to make it clearer?

It seems to me that every time there is a discussion around GNU licenses many people have no idea how to interpret them and then decide not to use them out of fear. It does not seem to me that this is in the interest of the GNU project. Why not fix this?

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Re:The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with by saagarjha on Monday July 27, 2020 @08:05PM (#23970819)
Well, for one that would require GPLv4. And another one is that if you "fix" it down too much some smart-aleck comes around and says "but I was actually just running it and the results of the computation were beamed into people's brains, so they never knew about the software I was using and so I shouldn't have to release my source code". That being said, I think they should really update their Q&A; one personal one that I would really like revisited is the GPL and the App Store.
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Re:The terms of the AGPL are pretty easy to comply with by ksec on Monday July 27, 2020 @09:24PM (#23971322)
EXACTLY.

Instead people waste time trying to defend something that neither side can prove. And business / Startup doesn't want to risk anything when there are always an alternatives.

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