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Re:EU study recommends OpenBSD by cwyers on Monday April 27, 2015 @12:33PM (#9447353)
That still only goes so far, though. If you're building a product on top of a database that's licensed with the AGPL, like Mongo, you have to distribute those changes.* If you build your Intranet site on Mongo, though, you don't need to distribute those changes in a way that gets back to upstream.

* I think. And I don't know if this has withstood the sort of court scrutiny the GPL has.

Re:EU study recommends OpenBSD by yellowapple on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:32PM (#9447824)
For the intranet site, I think you'd still need to make the source code available to users, who could then make the source publicly available.

IANAL, though, so I don't know if corporate policy forbidding this would be legal under the terms of the AGPL.

Re:EU study recommends OpenBSD by dublinben on Monday April 27, 2015 @05:27PM (#9449197)
>I don't know if corporate policy forbidding this would be legal under the terms of the AGPL

Section 10 of both the GPLv3 and AGPLv3 prevent the imposition of "further restrictions" on the subject of the license.

Re:EU study recommends OpenBSD by yellowapple on Monday April 27, 2015 @05:46PM (#9449301)
I'm aware. What's not clear is whether applies to the individual components of an organization (i.e. its employees) or just the organization as a whole. I want to think the answer is that intra-organizational distribution still counts as distribution (and therefore cannot be restricted), but usually it's considered acceptable to use a modified version of (A)GPL'd software internally (i.e. not used outside the organization) without it counting as "distribution", so things are kind of fuzzy without explicit terms in that regard.

Such are the side-effects of treating organizations as singular entities :)

Re:EU study recommends OpenBSD by reitanqild on Monday April 27, 2015 @01:48PM (#9447927)
As far as I know mongo think they have solved this by providing dricers under a different licence.

Again, AFAIK, this licencing (AGPL + MIT/BSD or Apache) has not been tested in court.