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by mordocai 3735 days ago
You have misread and other people have misunderstood then.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl clearly explains what the license intends as does the second paragraph in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License.

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See my edit as well.

Based on what GNU says in the first link it seems kind of reasonable although I will not dare to use it without checking carefully with lawyers as this obviously this isn't what a lot of people think.

Unfortunately very few of those people have actually read the license. As another commenter said, I don't see how you can read the license and come to the conclusion that a user of an AGPL program over the network would have to AGPL their code. It just doesn't make any rational sense.