Stable-diffusion-webui now licensed under AGPL 3.0

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15 points·ericra··5 comments

As far as my understanding goes, when a Repo doesn't have a license, it means that the author reserves all copyrights.

Now that the original author added a license, any new commits will be under the AGPLv3, and his old commits(assuming he wants to) will also be relicensed to AGPLv3.

https://github.com/AUTOMATIC1111/stable-diffusion-webui/grap...

If that's true, then anybody modifying the project can be sued later by the old contributors and the license isn't strictly valid.

Other contributors submitting their code to a proprietary codebase are giving up their license to the code in favour of the repo's license. The repo owner can do whatever with the code at that point, including choosing to open it as AGPLv3 if they want to.

Where does it say they agreed to that? Since there is no CLA, they still own the copyright.

I'm so glad to see this license become more popular. It's the best way to protect your product from getting SaaSS-ified and having all of your revenue stolen by the FAANGs, and without making it non-free.

The license was added in a commit 18 hours ago. There was some concern about the lack of a license here, so hopefully this clears things up for those using the project.

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