Reading AGPL

This and kemitchell's previous installments are extremely helpful IMO.

Wrt AGPL though,

- unlike GPL, it hasn't stood in court (or has it, and in which jurisdiction?); which is kindof a biggie since there may be legal uncertainties and costs, to put it mildly; in particular

- I've heard the concern that, on top of the copyright/contract law debate mentioned, AGPL can't be applied to the maximum-viral/contagious degree desired by those who consider licensing their work under AGPL (forcing AWS to either publish their network provisioning stack under GPL, say, or cease using third-party AGPL software alltogether) because AGPL or any license cannot legally limit rights to third-party software.

Disclaimer: IANAL (4 semesters, though)

I've struggled to understand AGPL before, and our lawyers advised us to avoid it because they didn't fully understand it's implications either.

This is super useful!