Everybody is gangsta until the lawyers come in and start distorting the definitions and take everything from you. The problem is not the ethics of the license, it's on its abstract terms using the wording of the license.
Let's say I wrote an operating system driver under the AGPL. If a user is interacting with a website that runs on a system using that driver, does that trigger this clause? What exactly is interaction under this license? This may seem like an inordinate example, but databases are one common web technology not directly interacted with... Perhaps that was the foreshadowing for MongoDb changing to the SSPL.
Yep. I’m comparing two programs for internal use on a local network. The AGPL is vague to me, so I’m going to test the non-AGPL program first. A network copyleft system is probably the best we can do if we are going to have electronic voting machines. Government has the compliance resources to make this happen. No election result should be trusted (even if “your side” wins) if there is even one line of unauditable code calculating the outcome.
Everybody is gangsta until the lawyers come in and start distorting the definitions and take everything from you.
The problem is not the ethics of the license, it's on its abstract terms using the wording of the license.
That's not a bug, its a feature. Agpl is a legal Trojan horse.
Let's say I wrote an operating system driver under the AGPL. If a user is interacting with a website that runs on a system using that driver, does that trigger this clause? What exactly is interaction under this license? This may seem like an inordinate example, but databases are one common web technology not directly interacted with... Perhaps that was the foreshadowing for MongoDb changing to the SSPL.
Yep. I’m comparing two programs for internal use on a local network. The AGPL is vague to me, so I’m going to test the non-AGPL program first.
A network copyleft system is probably the best we can do if we are going to have electronic voting machines. Government has the compliance resources to make this happen. No election result should be trusted (even if “your side” wins) if there is even one line of unauditable code calculating the outcome.
This sounds like a legal trojan horse.
way to miss the actual criticism
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