Re: What's wrong with the AGPL?

Thanks for the answer.

>> Is there any recognized published statement that explains whether the
>> AGPL achieves a network copyleft effect as intended or not? And if the
>> conclusion is that it doesn't what's the alternative if you want this
>> effect?
>
> AGPL doesn't intend a "network effect" — at least not as VCs would see 
> it —indeed as a copyleft license it's intended to prevent this.

This is the news for me. For the longest time, the AGPL was positioned 
as a network ("cloud") copyleft license.

Do you have any pointers as the original intentions not being that?

Thanks, Dirk

-- 
Confused about open source?
Get clarity through https://bayave.com/training
--
Website: https://dirkriehle.com - Twitter: @dirkriehle
Ph (DE): +49-157-8153-4150 - Ph (US): +1-650-450-8550


_______________________________________________
The opinions expressed in this email are those of the sender and not necessarily those of the Open Source Initiative. Official statements by the Open Source Initiative will be sent from an opensource.org email address.

License-discuss mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.opensource.org/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org