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If your operating system is AGPL3+, are you prohibited from using tools upon it to access any/all Square services for any reason? Are you in violation of every copyright agreement on your hard drive due to your failure to reconcile the AGPL3+ terms with the software licenses you are integrating with the operating system through installation and use?

I can see why they would want to explicitly decline to participate in AGPL infections.

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Those questions can as easily be asked of proprietary software with EULAs.

And "infection" is a creepy way to write "compliance".

Most proprietary software with EULAs does not contain a copyleft provision that forces itself upon other software. I find copyleft creepy and power-hungry, so my choice of word reflects how I perceive it.

an agpl lisc only requires that you provide the code you altered in order to integrate. prohibiting it from running on their servers simply closes the door on people coming to them for code they don't even own!

The use of the word “infection” is usually deliberate and an attempt to taint users view of GNU’s software licenses.

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