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by madisonmay 1121 days ago
Why the decision to license as GPL?
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We specifically chose AGPL-3 because we wanted it to be permissive, but we didn't want others to fork our project, take it closed source, and charge for it without adding back anything of value.

We also don't expect companies to customize the functionality, just to self-host it or use the cloud version, or use it for personal projects.

what is your concern with gpl? you can still commerialize apps that use it as long as you use the normal interfaces it exposes.