[baileypumfleet]

The AGPL is more to clear up confusion and try and limit people ripping off our software.

Open source definitely isn’t a growth strategy for us. We’re huge open source fans, and do actually believe in what it stands for. We’re open source for a number of other reasons, such as longevity, privacy and genuine passion for OSS software (I’ve wrote more about this in other comments here).

However, yes, we are a company that is VC-backed, and so we have to make some decisions that are for the business side of things, and switching to AGPL is one way of cutting down on people trying to create rip off versions of our product.

[candiddevmike]

Folks can still rip off/sell your software (even as a managed service) with the AGPL, as long as they share the source code of their version of cal.com

[Peer_Rich]

plausible wrote a good article about limiting it with AGPL https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses