Google open source guru: 'Why we ban the AGPL'

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Mar 31, 2011 12:05 PM EDT
The Register; By Cade Metz
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Google open source guru Chris DiBona says that the web giant continues to ban the lightning-rod AGPL open source license within the company because doing so "saves engineering time" and because most AGPL projects are of no use to the company. The Affero GPL is designed to close the so-called "application service provider loophole" in the GPL, which lets ASPs use GPL code without distributing their changes back to the open source community. Under the AGPL, if you use code in a web service, you required to open source it.

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