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Estragon on April 17, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why the GNU Affero GPL

I predict this won't be nearly as successful as the GPL has been. The incentives don't line up the same way as they did for desktop software.

Maro on April 17, 2010 [–]

The point of the AGPL is to have companies like Google (who use heavily modified GPL'd codebases such as the Linux kernel or Mysql, but don't redistribute it, hence do not have to share back under the GPL) start sharing back as [if] projects switch to AGPL'd codebases.

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