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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by pron on Thursday June 18, 2015 @07:41AM (#9737924)
When the GPL was written, this kind of software wasn't very common. Now that it is, the FSP formalized the AGPL, which they recommend over the GPL for server-side software.
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Re:Why Greet Apple's Swift 2.0 With Open Arms? by anon1385 on Thursday June 18, 2015 @12:22PM (#9739642)
Nearly any software is potentially server side software. So really they should recommend AGPL for everything, and relicence all FSF owned projects as AGPL.

They don't because a lot of people even inside the FOSS community are violently opposed to the AGPL. Quite a few people think that it conflicts with Freedom Zero.

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