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by happymellon 822 days ago
Why?

In the cloud provider scenario it's clearly the right license, so that it remains opensource
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xyzzy_plugh 822 days ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23966778
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happymellon 822 days ago
I would completely agree with this sentiment.

The AGPL is to protect the software you made so it can't be bundled as a service and enhancements locked away because "they aren't giving away the software".

Enhancements to PostGIS would have to be published if it was AGPL. Not literally everything that's on the network.

If someone wants to take community software but not submit fixes then I would agree that they should avoid AGPL.

Unless I miss the point of your comment.

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xyzzy_plugh 822 days ago
> Not literally everything that's on the network.

Unless you're a lawyer and confident in your ability to represent me in court, then this is in fact the point of my comment.

I have zero faith in your statement.

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