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points by kleiba2 1 day ago | 0 comments
AGPL is as free as it gets. Perhaps the word you're looking for is non-permissive?
[–] sneak 1 day ago
Don’t believe the hype. AGPL violates free software freedoms 0 and 1. It was designed by people who think that receiving a free gift confers obligation to reciprocate.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

https://sneak.berlin/20250720/the-agpl-is-nonfree/

[–] levkk 1 day ago
Huh? FSF wrote AGPL and the 4 freedoms.

AGPL does not require you to share your changes if you use it (like most people) internally. It does if you host it for others as a service. Pretty fair trade.

Freedom to use, modify and distribute, clearly enforced for the Internet age.

[–] sneak 1 day ago
> AGPL does not require you to share your changes if you use it (like most people) internally.

The text of the AGP License does not support this claim.

[–] thunderfork 1 day ago
A lot of the arguments in this second link fall flat (e.g. "ohh you're violating the license if you npm run on your dev machine!") and it'd be more convincing if it spent less time trying to nitpick nonsense like that and just stuck to the moral argument it's trying to make