▲ | dotancohen 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||
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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