pReya

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[–] pReya@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The reason for the creation of AGPL is not "limiting" commercial use. It's there, so that a company commercially using your AGPL project is also required to publish its changes under AGPL, even if the only way they "distribute" the software is as a Application Service Procider (SaaS company). Because under regular GPL, this case wasn't covered, so big companies could use your code, modify it, offer it as a SaaS product and NOT publish their changes unter a free license.

AGPL specifically exists, so the rules around commercial SaaS use are clear – so I'd argue it's the opposite of "limiting commercial use".

See: https://yairudi.com/understanding-asp-loophole/

[–] pReya@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

HedgeDoc would be another contender

[–] pReya@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Is there a ticket/issue for this already?

[–] pReya@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah, it is. But I think they've dialled it down quite a bit. Or do you still have som examples where they claim to be open source? It's mostly users misunderstanding what OSS is.