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by jsamuel 4369 days ago
Interesting, I didn't realize that Ajenti charges for commercial licensing of their web hosting addon.

http://ajenti.org/licensing

It's on github separately but without a license: https://github.com/Eugeny/ajenti-v

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Can't be sure this could be treated as an official statement, but https://github.com/Eugeny/ajenti-v/blob/efcee75286418fbbd25e... has a mention of LGPLv3.

If that's real terms the software's distributed under and not some mistake, then it's a proper Free Software project and I don't see any reason why one can't or won't use AGPL/LGPL software commercially. Adding any "secret sauce" seems nearly pointless for web hosting solutions, and even if that's truly necessary it probably could be easily hidden beneath "xGPL software merely writes a config file, and doesn't link with the proprietary bits" waiver.

We've recently undergone transition from an invalid combination of LGPL + custom clauses to dual-licensing under AGPL and proprietary. I actually forgot to replace the license mention in this buildscript, thank you!