Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
by smegger001 on Saturday October 08, 2022 @01:10AM
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yeah AGPL seems to go father than many people are willing to accept. if i ship a device with copyleft code on it fair enough share the code. But AGPL is my device runs AGP code i have to share it. thats to much for me. if i am not distributing binaries i shouldn't have to share code.
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Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
by josephcsible on Saturday October 08, 2022 @01:28AM
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> But AGPL is my device runs AGP code i have to share it.
In general, no you don't. You only do if you let other users interact with the AGPL'd program over the network.
Re:Is the FSF Fighting the Previous War?
by charcircuit on Saturday October 08, 2022 @03:58AM
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No, running AGPL programs does not require you to share the code. Modifying AGPL programs requires you to offer all users a copy of the source code. You can for example modify the code and offer it in a public github project and after you have made the modification make the github project private.
Don't worry, this is a common misconception. Just running AGPL code doesn't obligate you to do anything