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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by Tyr42 on Saturday June 13, 2015 @04:07PM (#9712439)
That's why they introduced the Affero GLP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License

Which basically means, you can't use the code at all commercially; stay very far away from the code. It's not very well defined how to be compliant.

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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by task_queue on Sunday June 14, 2015 @01:06AM (#9713777)
AGPL says no such thing. AGPL software running on the backend must be made available upon request to users who are served content by it.
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Re:Why Open Source Misses the Point of Free Software by rmc on Sunday June 14, 2015 @09:56AM (#9714891)
It is entirely possible to use AGPL code commerically. You just have to give a copy of the source code to your user. This is no different from RMS selling copies of Emacs and giving the customers the code afterwards.
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