AGPL does not prevent anything that anyone has any right to want. The more someone cries that agpl (or gpl3, or gpl-any) is "overbearing", the more they expose how they wish they could steal. You can't say one without saying the other, they are the same statement. And it's an extra level of amazing to need to steal something that's already free.
You can absolutely not only use agpl software, for free, you can even sell access to it. SO OVERBEARING
If you can't stand the burden of having to share with the next guy that which you yourself were given for free, there is no reason for anyone else to feel the tiniest bit of sympathy.
Feel free to write your own software and set whatever terms you like. Surely the need to write it and develop it to the point of actually being any good is not overbearing at all.
Or feel free to license software from someone selling it. Surely Oracle or IBM terms will not be overbearing at all.
I mean I just avoid the software altogether, and yes I would rather pay for proprietary software than use a license that could somehow wind me up in any sort of lawsuit should I ever make similar software. No thanks.
People say that but I remember when Mongo changed their license to some custom one that was similarish to AGPL and it didnt even matter because China just does not care.
I worked for a small software shop for about 20 years and then the owner sold us to a big multinational company. People from the new company were telling us that they had just recently come through a big MS audit and were pleased with themselves that they had come through ok.
I was boggled that they were pleased to have been audited and blessed by fucking Microsoft.
Talk about "wind up in a lawsuit..." I am just trying to imagine freaking auditors from Gimp or Apache showing up and demanding to rifle through all your computers to make sure you aren't violating Gimp's GPL license.
But GPL or AGPL is overbearing.
People have somehow just lost any sense of rational perspective about just what is reasonable and unreasonable.
You can absolutely not only use agpl software, for free, you can even sell access to it. SO OVERBEARING
If you can't stand the burden of having to share with the next guy that which you yourself were given for free, there is no reason for anyone else to feel the tiniest bit of sympathy.
Feel free to write your own software and set whatever terms you like. Surely the need to write it and develop it to the point of actually being any good is not overbearing at all.
Or feel free to license software from someone selling it. Surely Oracle or IBM terms will not be overbearing at all.
Do people even hear themselves?