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Post by rosnd » Thu, Oct 27, 2022, 11:40 PM UTC

brutusborn wrote: post #18

rosnd wrote: post #17

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The "FUD" exists because AGPL is poorly written. There are many situations in which complying with clauses like this is almost impossible > 13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License. > Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your versi…

What kind of situations? So far none of the comments criticizing AGPL provide an example.

Post by rosnd » Mon, Oct 31, 2022, 12:04 AM UTC

brutusborn wrote: post #22

rosnd wrote: post #21

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For example an analytics tool like Piwik couldn't really work with AGPL, as it inherently can't prominently offer anything to users. Unless we're going to interpret "prominent" as "whatever is convenient", this clause restricts AGPL to software which is capable of prominently displaying messages to the user.

Thanks for the example, but I'm still confused. Can't you just add a button to the dashboard for "download source"