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Re:Ask HN: I need a license for an open source project allow... by j_baker on Thursday May 21, 2009 @11:17AM (#620558)
The problem is that the AGPL and GPL require you to let anyone who buys your software fork it or give it away for free. This is how CentOS is made.

And if you use a GPL or AGPL library, you have to license the whole software package as such.

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Re:Ask HN: I need a license for an open source project allow... by vorador on Thursday May 21, 2009 @01:30PM (#620781)
This is not a problem for a webapp. Or is it ?
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Re:Ask HN: I need a license for an open source project allow... by twopoint718 on Thursday May 21, 2009 @04:49PM (#621109)
You may have to watch out because the GPLv3 is designed to prevent this sort of thing (having some GPL'd software inaccessible on the server side (the "application service provider" loophole)).

So it could be a problem, I'm not an expert on this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_General_Public_License#Vers...

*Edit, nothing to do with "Tivoization"

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Re:Ask HN: I need a license for an open source project allow... by sachmanb on Friday May 22, 2009 @02:14PM (#622460)
if it is AGPL (notice the A), then you must provide source to to your users, whereas with GPL it's when you distribute the code (can't send precompiled webapp)
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