  > very copyleft and not compatible with business models.

Could you explain this for the rest of us? Thanks.

▲ mattigames 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

The short answer is that it means that businesses need to publicly share whatever change they do to the code, and that alone is enough deterrent to use it.

▲ abirch 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

"The GNU Affero General Public License is a modified version of the ordinary GNU GPL version 3. It has one added requirement: if you run a modified program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the modified version running there."

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html

This means that if this company is successful and sells me 1 license, in theory I can request the source code and spin up Dr Evil's voice 1 billion clones and not pay licenses for those.

With other forms of GPL you only have to release the source code if you release the software to the user.

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psychoslave 2 days ago | parent [-]

A business that maintain its customer base captive through any kind of designed technical defect and asymmetrical information distribution is not striving for excellence in customer experience.

Saying that such a behavior encompasses all possible business models, it's like saying directorship is the only form of governance.

	▲	monkeywork 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Name 3 succesful companies running under such restrictions?