Stephen Paul Weber wrote: > [AGPL] will discourage any BigCo running off to kill you....
Indeed, some BigCo's entirely forbid the AGPL, lest they be required to open some of their proprietary code. This is a legitimate open source business model to earn license fees for free software. :-) /Larry -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Paul Weber [mailto:singpol...@singpolyma.net] Sent: Friday, August 5, 2016 11:59 AM To: Lawrence Rosen <lro...@rosenlaw.com>; license-discuss@opensource.org Cc: Lawrence Rosen <lro...@rosenlaw.com> Subject: Re: [License-discuss] licenses for hosted services > AGPL doesn't affect for-profit hosting. Not directly, of course, but it will discourage any BigCo running off to kill you with proprietary extensions that they host. Which is why I said it's as close in spirit as you can get on this side of open source. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
