Note that there have been some license controversies with mold before, namely that they wanted to make all
outputs AGPL, not simply mold itself [0], seems like they walked this policy back however [1].
> Open-source license: mold stays in AGPL, but _we claim AGPL propagates to the linker's output_. That is, we claim that the output from the linker is a derivative work of the linker. That's a bold claim but not entirely nonsense since the linker copies some code from itself to the an output. Therefore, there's room to claim that the linker's output is a derivative work of the linker, and since the linker is AGPL, the license propagates. I don't know if this claim will hold in court, but just buying a sold license would be much easier than using mold in an AGPL-incompatible way and challenging the claim in court.
Regardless of their current stance, this type of policy changes on a whim led me to remove mold from any of my systems, since I don't want all of my code in the future to automatically become AGPL, even by accident.
[0] https://bluewhalesystems.blogspot.com/2022/11/mold-linker-ma...
[1] https://github.com/rui314/mold#license
> Open-source license: mold stays in AGPL, but _we claim AGPL propagates to the linker's output_. That is, we claim that the output from the linker is a derivative work of the linker. That's a bold claim but not entirely nonsense since the linker copies some code from itself to the an output. Therefore, there's room to claim that the linker's output is a derivative work of the linker, and since the linker is AGPL, the license propagates. I don't know if this claim will hold in court, but just buying a sold license would be much easier than using mold in an AGPL-incompatible way and challenging the claim in court.
Regardless of their current stance, this type of policy changes on a whim led me to remove mold from any of my systems, since I don't want all of my code in the future to automatically become AGPL, even by accident.
[0] https://bluewhalesystems.blogspot.com/2022/11/mold-linker-ma...
[1] https://github.com/rui314/mold#license