What's APGL? Anti Personnel Grenade Launchers?
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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
#12Scratching 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.
Is that plausible? I thought MongoDB was the only major, industrially successful AGPL project, and they relicensed last year to SSPL.
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#13II.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.
The service provider might be breaking the AGPL, but square isn't liable. It isn' using the AGPL it self and isn't a party to the copyright contract.
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#14Relevant 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?
Why would it not be legal? Verifiable does not play a role. You sign a contract that you won’t do it.
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The service provider might be breaking the AGPL, but square isn't liable. It isn' using the AGPL it self and isn't a party to the copyright contract.
If they need to redistribute some AGPL content they are liable.
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#16What's APGL? Anti Personnel Grenade Launchers?
Network GPL, like GPL but if any system in your network (think of a chain of micro services) uses an AGPL/AGPL-like dependency, then all of your services have to be open sourced too.
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#17What's APGL? Anti Personnel Grenade Launchers?
Basically, if you use the software to expose a service, your service becomes subject to the same terms as if you were distributing the code behind it.
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#18Relevant 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?
Can you explain the illegality to me? I fail to see it.
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#19I don't understand why are there so many proponents of the AGPL when it's one of the most restrictive and therefore against freedom licences there are.
Re: Square’s terms of service forbid use of AGPL-licensed software in online stores
#20What's APGL? Anti Personnel Grenade Launchers?
Network GPL, like GPL but if any system in your network (think of a chain of micro services) uses an AGPL/AGPL-like dependency, then all of your services have to be open sourced too.
He's mocking the fact that the title says APGL instead of AGPL