Re:Grafana, Loki, and Tempo will be relicensed to AGPLv3
by pritambaral on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @07:18PM
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> Yeah, and running a business on my own computer by providing API services to someone is not distribution of software.
Depending on the software, according to the author of said software, it can be. I'm not saying this is the case for all software, but for some kinds of software it makes sense.
> Running an API business shouldn't force me to distribute anything to anyone.
"Running an API business" does not "force" you to "distribute anything to anyone". Using software that was clearly meant, by its author, for the provision of a service and licensed as such to you is what requires you to do anything. And the AGPL is very tame at that:
1. you don't have to distribute non-AGPL3 and non-GPL3 code;
2. you don't have to distribute to just about anyone, only your users; and
3. you don't have to distribute anything _you haven't modified_.
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If you were given the freedom to modify a software, then not providing users of this modified software the same freedoms you received is loss of software freedom, don't you see?
Depending on the software, according to the author of said software, it can be. I'm not saying this is the case for all software, but for some kinds of software it makes sense.
> Running an API business shouldn't force me to distribute anything to anyone.
"Running an API business" does not "force" you to "distribute anything to anyone". Using software that was clearly meant, by its author, for the provision of a service and licensed as such to you is what requires you to do anything. And the AGPL is very tame at that:
1. you don't have to distribute non-AGPL3 and non-GPL3 code;
2. you don't have to distribute to just about anyone, only your users; and
3. you don't have to distribute anything _you haven't modified_.
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If you were given the freedom to modify a software, then not providing users of this modified software the same freedoms you received is loss of software freedom, don't you see?