Re:Mailpile Chooses AGPL v3
by zmmmmm on Thursday July 02, 2015 @11:09PM
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Strange to choose between two such starkly different options. AGPL is about the most commercially hostile license you can find, while Apache is at the complete opposite end of the spectrum. Given the results are so polarised, I wonder if they could not have achieved a better outcome by offering something in the middle (regular GPL, or LGPL, etc.).
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Only if you speak about components. Mailpile is a complete product, so the viral nature of it being used as a component is not a problem for the project.
The AGPL itself makes a lot of sense, as any other licenses you mention would never have any teeth, as the software is - by nature - never distributed by the service provider.