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Re:Getting Forked by Microsoft by sneak on Monday April 21, 2025 @08:59AM (#43751511)
The AGPL is a nonfree license, and compliance with it is, as it is written, impossible.
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Re:Getting Forked by Microsoft by hardwaresofton on Monday April 21, 2025 @09:05AM (#43751576)
It’s classified as free AFAIK, could you expand/lay down some points?
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Re:Getting Forked by Microsoft by aryonoco on Monday April 21, 2025 @10:04AM (#43752145)
The FSF considers AGPL Free Software (of course).

The OSI considered AGPL, Open Source.

Debian considers AGPL to be compatible with Debian Free Software License Guidelines.

FreeBSD considers AGPL acceptable in its ports.

So when you say AGPL is non free, could you clarify exactly what you mean?

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Re:Getting Forked by Microsoft by Xelynega on Monday April 21, 2025 @12:57PM (#43754017)
How is compliance as written impossible?
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