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Grafana is a bad example.

They switched to agpl and pushing companies in paying for it.

Which is okay of course but grafana labs is no longer a free open source project.

Of course potentially feature request might come in by key account manager or other hidden business agreements but I myself still comment on the opensource front like GitHub issues.

When my company now pays money for it, my expectation definitely changes.

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> When my company now pays money for it, my expectation definitely changes.

Familiarize yourself with the difference between "free beer" and "free speech".

The F in FOSS refers to the latter, you're fixating on the former.

The FSF has never objected to charging money for Free/GPL software. Programmers need to eat too.

How is AGPL not FOSS as defined by both OSI and FSF?

AGPL has been accepted as libre by all of OSI, FSF and Debian.

Some folks and types of companies don't like it due to the extra code distribution provisions that trigger for modified versions that users interact with over a network.

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