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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:01PM (#26881610)
The question is whether the alternatives are any better; IMO, this is unlikely (all the others I've seen make tradeoffs that I'd consider poor, personally).

I think the virality and companies not liking it is the license working as intended, honestly; it's supposed to be viral, that's the point of copyleft, and obviously companies take issue with that (although I agree that some of this might be misunderstanding scope / what it infects), but that's not a bug, it's the license doing its job and companies making decisions based on that.

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Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3 by soenkeliebau on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @05:51PM (#26882279)
My personal opinion (and it is really just that - I cannot prove anything I say here) is that for a lot of those companies it is actually the risk of not being able to tell exactly what the AGPL would affect that is the main factor.

As I said, I'm explicitly not mentioning any alternative here because they all have issues, but the AGPL's wording is much more complicated than most and that (perceived) insecurity around it is my main criticism.

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