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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by pessimizer on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:28PM (#25028702)
If the webapps themselves use AGPL software, that's not "internally." If the employees of a SaaS company themselves use AGPL software that isn't linked to the service that users access, that's internally; e.g. if a webapp uses an AGPL database, the users are accessing that database.
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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by fxtentacle on Sunday November 08, 2020 @03:32PM (#25028725)
I'd say using an AGPL tool as a service for your webapp is this scenario:

"Scenario 1: Using an unmodified AGPL binary" https://medium.com/swlh/understanding-the-agpl-the-most-misu...

which seems to be allowed by AGPL without disclosing source code.

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Re:Large Corporations Aren’t Going to Save the Real Linux Co... by ghaff on Sunday November 08, 2020 @04:34PM (#25029290)
The details are somewhat unclear but basically yes, that's what a cloud provider/SaaS company would probably assume. So they probably just won't use AGPL code and if they do want to offer a service with the same APIs, they can (at least for now) recreate a compatible service that they write themselves.
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