@chjara There are three versions of the AGPL, but I'm assuming you mean the AGPLv3: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

In my extensive reading of many licenses including the AGPLv3, it's an excellent license and is the GPLv3 except with extra clauses applying when the software is being used to perform another users computing and modifications have been made.

People don't understand licenses because they don't actually read them - instead they go and read the comments of other people who haven't read such licenses either.


Sure, companies that wish to cloud your mind and have you access free software in a method that is equivalent of a proprietary program with a universal back door are deathly allergic to the AGPLv3, but as the license is otherwise equivalent to the GPLv3, all the reasons to use the GPLv3 apply to the AGPLv3 as well.