[License-discuss] licenses for hosted services

[Lawrence Rosen]

Stephen Paul Weber wrote:
> [AGPL] will discourage any BigCo running off to kill you....

Indeed, some BigCo's entirely forbid the AGPL, lest they be required to open
some of their proprietary code. This is a legitimate open source business
model to earn license fees for free software. :-)

/Larry

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Paul Weber [mailto:singpolyma at singpolyma.net] 
Sent: Friday, August 5, 2016 11:59 AM
To: Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>; license-discuss at opensource.org
Cc: Lawrence Rosen <lrosen at rosenlaw.com>
Subject: Re: [License-discuss] licenses for hosted services

> AGPL doesn't affect for-profit hosting. 

Not directly, of course, but it will discourage any BigCo running off to
kill you with proprietary extensions that they host. Which is why I said
it's as close in spirit as you can get on this side of open source.