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> "No" is pretty cheap

Now, is it really? Paying a team of software engineers to recreate every AGPL project surely isn't…



Nobody is using every AGPL project and there aren't that many AGPL projects to begin with.

The problem is not just the risk associated with AGPL, it's also that the benefit is actually quite small. I think most companies would be a lot more willing to use AGPL, if there were any compelling projects using it.


But using a non-AGPL project is a cheap and easy solution for just about every use-case out there. If there was something special that was AGPL licensed it might matter, but there isn't so it is easy to avoid.




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