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Re:Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana by npiit on Thursday January 14, 2021 @10:58AM (#25777887)
>Personally, I'd rather see a more aggressive AGPL where REST calls are considered linking and trigger virality

That's why I never understood the point of SSPL. Is this exactly what AGPLv3 is supposed to be for?

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Re:Licensing changes to Elasticsearch and Kibana by Pet_Ant on Friday January 15, 2021 @10:37AM (#25792087)
IANAL

I believe AGPL expands the definition of distribution not of linking. So if GCC was AGPL and I made a web page where you could upload source code and then download the binary, that would count as "distributing" GCC and thus I would have to make the changes I made available (because privately made change to GPL code do not have to be shared if the binaries aren't shared).

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