Ask HN: Does AGPLv3 cover cloud gaming?

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Post by dulvui » Wed, Aug 21, 2024, 7:49 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Does AGPLv3 cover cloud gaming?

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Post by seveibar » Wed, Aug 21, 2024, 8:24 PM UTC

IANAL but yea probably? Same as any cloud server.

I’m not sure of an AGPL game or technology would ever be knowingly used inside a cloud service

Re: Ask HN: Does AGPLv3 cover cloud gaming?

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Post by 3np » Wed, Aug 21, 2024, 8:53 PM UTC

Yes, always.

(If you want a more nuanced answer, we need a more nuanced question. I general, the AGPL is applicable in cloud-gaming as well as bakeries and at high altutide. I hope you play fair by making source of your AGPL-code-enabled backends available to gamers!)

Re: Ask HN: Does AGPLv3 cover cloud gaming?

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Post by dulvui » Wed, Aug 21, 2024, 9:22 PM UTC

3np wrote: post #3

Yes, always. (If you want a more nuanced answer, we need a more nuanced question. I general, the AGPL is applicable in cloud-gaming as well as bakeries and at high altutide. I hope you play fair by making source of your AGPL-code-enabled backends available to gamers!)

Thanks, next time I'll make a more nuanced question, promise. I'm building open source games, not a cloud gaming platform. So I was just curious if the AGPL covers also cloud gaming, since I didn't really find something on the web to that specific topic.