[sneak]

The concern is the same as that with any other software license that restricts the freedoms of the world to build upon, adapt, and use the software for any purpose.

I'm not some free software zealot; I use macOS and the Creative Cloud and a bunch of other proprietary crap on a daily basis. I just don't pretend it respects my freedom. Nonfree licenses are like that.

It's not like it "switches to even more free": it is presently nonfree.

[kenmacd]

> It's not like it "switches to even more free": it is presently nonfree.

It's free for any use-case I'm concerned with. I can modify the source, self-host it, and run thousands of nodes through it if I want. All I can't do is take their work, slap my name on it, and sell it.

If that was your intent then VPNCloud is even less free. The GPL3 license means you could never host a closed-source version.

[sneak]

That's false. The GPL allows for running a service with a closed source fork.

It's the AGPL that prohibits this, which is why I consider the AGPL nonfree.

[kenmacd]

Okay, well then replace service with sell device with the code in it, or put any type of DRM on a device using the code.

The point being that any license is going to have some amount of:

> restricts the freedoms of the world to build upon, adapt, and use the software for any purpose.

It's just up to if you like the terms or not.