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by LinuxBender 2494 days ago
Nextcloud is really cool. A coworker had initially set it up for an in-house place for our team to store more sensitive things that we didn't want floating around on confluence or google docs. It didn't last long. The legal team didn't like the AGPL license and we had to abandon the project. Too bad really, the interface is very nice and the file level encryption was a big plus.
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Aeolun 2494 days ago
Why would the legal team care about the license in this case?
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LinuxBender 2493 days ago
Fear. I think they are over-cautious. They don't want AGPL code running in an environment that could be perceived as part of our customer environment.
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jospoortvliet 2493 days ago
They should contact us - Nextcloud GmbH. A contract with us contains all indemnification they could ever want, so it should not be an issue at all. (A)GPL is used in a countless business environments, they're tried-and-true licenses that have been proven to be pro-customer. Especially if you have a proper vendor contract it's actually a huge advantage over the various vendor licenses and their often heavy-handed anti-user clauses.
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