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dataangel
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GPL is part of why SaaS happened. It doesn’t prevent commercial use and it doesn’t require distributing source code if the user never gets an executable. SaaS is the textbook way to work around the GPL.
8note
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And thus, GPL has evolved to match?
jagger27
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Sort of, with AGPL.
goodpoint
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No, there's AGPL for that.
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