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arximboldi

I am curious:

- Does your company contribute to any of the non-AGPL pieces of software it uses, either in code or money?

- Does it have propietary patches to these software that it does not contribute back?

- Has it published any open source packages of its own?

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Mine does (EMC, now Dell) [1]. We've had serious issues getting lawyers to sign off on AGPL.

1. https://codedellemc.com/

My example does. They contribute pretty heavily to apache licensed software and have a small but popular in the right niche high performance filesystem that they built.

AGPL is an immediate no; GPL requires written approval from chief in house counsel and he will almost certainly say no.

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