[License-discuss] What's wrong with the AGPL?

[Josh Berkus]

A lot of this discussion has been around the AGPL "failing" startups who 
wanted to use it to protect themselves from web service competition.

This is not that the AGPL was written for.

The AGPL was written for projects like CiviCRM, which had a direct 
threat of "embrace and extend" by proprietary vendors.  The AGPL did, 
and still does, a fine job of preventing nonprofit OSS projects from 
having their code modified, extended, and improved by proprietary 
service vendors without back contribution.

The struggle that startups are having is that they don't want code 
contributions, they want money.  Copyleft is not a business model.

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Josh Berkus