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by sneak 2330 days ago
I don’t think that copyright enforcement should be used against me based on whether or not I run a webserver alongside a modified application or not.

I’m all on board with copyleft in general, but the “service provider loophole” just seems like anti-business sentiment. People using modified free software to provide services useful enough to pay for is a good thing.

Forcing someone to publish their own changes simply because they run a business always seems to me like violent coercion, using copyright as a stick; much moreso than forcing someone to release source for object code they are already releasing.

Free software is a tool. Using that tool to create a successful business isn’t cheating anyone out of anything.

The software is absolutely not free as in freedom if I have one set of rights with the ethernet cable unplugged and a different set of rights with the ethernet cable connected.

Stop the service provider hate and avoid the AGPL and AGPL software.