Matt "msw" Wilson
Normalize the use of #AGPLv3 for its original purpose: to help protect the freedoms of the end-users of networked services like #Mastodon, not to help build a proprietary software business model (in which alternative commercial licenses are sold because the obligations of AGPLv3 are "scary").
(Personal opinion).
silverwizard
Pierre Bourdon
@msw it's not a loophole. AGPLv3 is basically just GPLv3 + clause 13, which is "if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version"
You have to make your fork advertise its source code. But there is nothing that prevents you from running that fork behind an HTTP proxy which then strips this offer.
Matt "msw" Wilson
@delroth I don't follow this "loophole" at all. Is there some more detailed writeup that explains in more detail?
Pierre Bourdon
@msw AGPLv3 doesn't really do that though -- the license is so badly written that you can entirely comply with it by adding a (real) source code link in your fork, but then running that fork behind a proxy which strips the link. Perfectly legal per the license.
(This all comes from the fact that AGPL tries to enforce usage restrictions, which are against Free Software principles, via weird copyright hacks that don't really work.)
silverwizard
Pierre Bourdon
@silverwizard @msw two different works (the copyright license of one has no influence on the other) and AGPLv3 specifically forbids derivatives to introduce restrictions on usage (clause 2, inherited from GPLv3 and from the core tenants of Free Software).
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