> But some FOSS people don't know any bettor or commercial FOSS-washed startups don't understand the implications of encumbering a project with impractical strings on use because "everyone else is doing it."
Or, they correctly understand exactly how the license works and intentionally choose something that's effectively impossible to use in anything proprietary (for some definition of "use in" that's probably less severe than you're implying, though IANAL).
> Either let the code be free or keep it proprietary rather than waffle or force unreasonable BS on users.
Correct; AGPL is 100% Free and a commendable choice. (Not that there's anything wrong with permissive licenses, but copyleft is also good.)
Or, they correctly understand exactly how the license works and intentionally choose something that's effectively impossible to use in anything proprietary (for some definition of "use in" that's probably less severe than you're implying, though IANAL).
> Either let the code be free or keep it proprietary rather than waffle or force unreasonable BS on users.
Correct; AGPL is 100% Free and a commendable choice. (Not that there's anything wrong with permissive licenses, but copyleft is also good.)