Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative

Re:Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Noti... by 911e on Saturday June 29, 2024 @08:00PM (#40834190)

Nice!

What was the thought process for AGPL instead of something else ?

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Re:Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Noti... by dijit on Saturday June 29, 2024 @08:04PM (#40834204)

AGPL is excellent for promoting the spirit of open source in this new world of web services (that are largely proprietary and SaaS).

AGPL is useful also for preventing commercial improvements that don't make it back into the general product.

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Re:Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Noti... by RadiozRadioz on Sunday June 30, 2024 @06:52AM (#40836434)

It's a Free Software license, not an Open Source license.

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Re:Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Noti... by jraph on Sunday June 30, 2024 @12:03PM (#40837960)

Definitely open source too: https://opensource.org/license/agpl-v3

All free software licenses are open source licenses.

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Re:Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Noti... by RadiozRadioz on Sunday June 30, 2024 @05:28PM (#40840542)

Indeed, it happens that a subset of the freedoms ensured by the AGPL align with what the OSI wants, but that is not why the license exists. They are completely different movements.

The original comment was:

> AGPL is excellent for promoting the spirit of open source

This statement is not about the practical compatibility of the license, this is a statement about what the license stands for. The license categorically does not stand for Open Source.

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Re:Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Noti... by jraph on Sunday June 30, 2024 @07:04PM (#40841129)

OK, we agree on this, and the statement would probably be better phrased "AGPL is excellent for promoting the free software spirit".

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