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Re:mold - The (really) fast linker by jeroenhd on Saturday January 14, 2023 @05:46PM (#34384889)
It depends if you find it acceptable that the work you created gets assigned the AGPL license. However, this problem was already solved at this point, so it's a non-issue these days.

One practical problem, even for developers who are fine with licensing their code to whatever open source license is easiest, is that not all open source licenses are AGPL compatible. Take for example the Mozilla Public License, which is inherently incompatible with AGPL because of the terms imposed; this means that any project using MPL licensed libraries could no longer be linked with Mold.

License incompatibilities can be a huge pain (see: ZFS + Linux). If you develop software for yourself this isn't a problem, but if you intend to distribute your software this becomes more of an issue.

This is probably also the main reason why normal linkers/compilers don't impose licenses on the produced work.

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