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Re:You may finally use JSHint for evil by falcolas on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @05:20PM (#24054617)
IMO, the fact that lawyers can't even agree on the scope of the AGPL means that semantics are just that, semantics.

Many licenses haven't been tried in court, including the AGPL, yet it's used fairly broadly.

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Re:You may finally use JSHint for evil by javagram on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @06:56AM (#24059337)
AGPL is widely avoided by corporations precisely because of this problem...

Corporations vastly prefer BSD/MIT style licenses or at most GPLv2.

GPLv3 is avoided, AGPL is avoided even more.

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Re:You may finally use JSHint for evil by gowld on Sunday August 09, 2020 @01:16AM (#24097443)
AGPL is avoided because cloud/server corporations know exactly what it means. It's expressly written to ban their business models.

Likewise for GPLv3 and Tivoized corporations.

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