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by pwdisswordfishz 505 days ago
They don't have to release source for internal forks.
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They do if they're AGPL licensed and the internal form software is used to provide a user facing service.
But then it isn’t “internal”…
It’s too hard to determine what pieces of your stack interact with public-facing services, particularly in a monorepo with thousands of developers. The effort involved and the legal risk if you get it wrong makes it an easy nope. Just ban AGPL.
The effort involved, and legal risk is exactly the same as for any Copyleft license. If you don't know what your stack is doing, that is the problem -- not the license.