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Matt "msw" Wilson

Normalize the use of #AGPLv3 for its original purpose: to help protect the freedoms of the end-users of networked services like #Mastodon, not to help build a proprietary software business model (in which alternative commercial licenses are sold because the obligations of AGPLv3 are "scary").

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Mark Keisler

@msw how to show/convince people that AGPL is not viral (causing exposure of networked software that AGPL software touches)?

Nov 22, 2022, 02:02 PM·Public·Mastodon for Android
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Matt "msw" Wilson

@grimm I don't know how to accelerate this in a way that scales. I think #FOSS software adoption, which is influenced by the terms of the license, is often organic...

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Mark Keisler

@msw 10 years ago or so, I had a battle at a large corporation that I worked for about bringing in an AGPLv3 licensed microblogging software. The lawyers were afraid someone could compel us to release source code for anything linked through the site that was not OSS.

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Matt "msw" Wilson

@grimm that's probably where we need to help connect lawyers to a peer support group of other lawyers.

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