Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
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Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#2 *AGPL ?
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#3Relevant quoted text from the article:
> B. Content Restrictions. In addition to the restrictions set forth in these Additional Product Terms, the General Terms and Payment Terms, you will not: [...]
> 15. use, under any circumstance, any open source software subject to the GNU Affero General Public License v.3, or greater;
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#4II.B.15: use, under any circumstance, any open source software subject to the GNU Affero General Public License v.3, or greater;
That's spooky. Any idea why?
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#5Relevant quoted text from the article: > B. Content Restrictions. In addition to the restrictions set forth in these Additional Product Terms, the General Terms and Payment Terms, you will not: [...] > 15. use, under any circumstance, any open source software subject to the GNU Affero General Public License v.3, or greater;
How's that even legal or verifiable?
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#6I don't know if the response here is good, but https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1078..., gives a rationale for not including any AGPL "in" another work and might thus be the reason for the exclusion.
See also, https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/2630....
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#7APGL as in the title or AGPL as in B.15?
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#8II.B.15: use, under any circumstance, any open source software subject to the GNU Affero General Public License v.3, or greater; That's spooky. Any idea why?
I don't fully understand the context, but I'm guessing that if you provide a service using software that's AGPL licensed and use Square to sell it, they have no way of complying to the AGPL terms of providing end users (your customers) with the source code and/or a link to it.
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#9What's APGL? Anti Personnel Grenade Launchers?
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#10Scratching Square off my list of service providers. I bet half of their datacenter software is in some way or the other using AGPL-licensed stuff; hypocrisy is just insane.