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Adoption is the problem. Most projects won't touch AGPL because it scares away corporate contributors, so you end up choosing between a license companies will use but can exploit, or one they'll just avoid. Closed the loophole only on paper imo.


So? If the goal was to attract corporations you'd release under a BSD license.




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