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  • paequ2
    5·
    29 days ago

    you don’t care that much about the AGPL clauses (e.g. because your app isn’t a server).

    I’ve been thinking about this recently… Let’s say you develop some local CLI. You think it’s not a server, so you license as GPL.

    Later someone comes and offers your CLI as SaSS. They write the server piece that just calls your local CLI on their server and pipes the input and output between the user.

    So… should you always prefer AGPL over GPL?

    • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
      3·
      29 days ago

      I have thought about this a lot and done some research on it. Bear in mind, I’m far from an expert, just a curious dev, but I’ve found no reasons to favor GPL over AGPL when AGPL exists. I personally see AGPL as closing a loophole GPL didn’t think of.

      One thing I’d wondered if if maybe AGPL hasn’t been tested in court. It has. Not as much as GPL, and I don’t remember if it specifically was the online part, but I definitely found at least one court case involving AGPL code.