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by harlowja 4461 days ago
Under my current understanding the reach is much farther, see for example google open source directors response @ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/31/google_on_open_sourc...

>>> The Affero GPL is designed to close the so-called "application service provider loophole" in the GPL, which lets ASPs use GPL code without distributing their changes back to the open source community. Under the AGPL, if you use code in a web service, you required to open source it.