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by ayende 1111 days ago
AGPL will do that, no GPL

GPL on server side software doesn't really matter, that is why the AGPL exists

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>GPL on server side software doesn't really matter

That's maybe too general. There are cases where it does matter.

Maybe "GPL on software-as-a-service code has limited usefulness"

Even then, people do sometimes choose it on purpose for SaaS, where they want to ensure any redistributed code, where the entity doing it makes that choice...is bound by the GPL.