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Comment by Flimm

If we're going to sink our time into the old copyleft vs permissive licenses debate, I wish we would be more precise with our words.

AGPL is an open source license, according to OSI, the only authority on what constitutes open source. https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0

You say "open for everybody to use". Both open source licenses and free/libre licences guarantee that the software is open for use. You're actually talking about freedom to combine with closed source/proprietary software, not about end-users freedom to use the software.

parent Flimm 9 years ago

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