Re:Shiny: Easy web applications in R
by belorn on Monday September 23, 2013 @05:02AM
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Could you define what kind of toy problem that would be hindered by the license?
I could speculate. Maybe your company has patents covering RStudio software and wants to go suing its customers. That would indeed pose a problem with AGPLv3.
Maybe your company produces devices which have web servers in them, and those servers are going to host "toy" pages which uses Shiny, and the devices are locked down with DRM which prevent modification to Shiny. I guess it would be possible...
Or maybe the company does not want to ever give out code under any circumstances, regardless if it's a toy project with no inherent value to the company. This is clearly possible, which is why a dual licensing scheme sometimes is a good choice.
I could speculate. Maybe your company has patents covering RStudio software and wants to go suing its customers. That would indeed pose a problem with AGPLv3.
Maybe your company produces devices which have web servers in them, and those servers are going to host "toy" pages which uses Shiny, and the devices are locked down with DRM which prevent modification to Shiny. I guess it would be possible...
Or maybe the company does not want to ever give out code under any circumstances, regardless if it's a toy project with no inherent value to the company. This is clearly possible, which is why a dual licensing scheme sometimes is a good choice.
I am intensively curious about which one it is.