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I'm subject to a moratorium on AGPL software at work. Some legal departments forbid or highly restrict use of AGPL licenses. They are concerned the licenses' viral nature causing problems for their software products.

Not that I agree with them, but, also, IANAL.

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Let's see that positively: with such a moratorium, we're less at risk of having some AGPL software used without respecting its licene terms :-)

I'm guessing that's what the commercial license option was for.

I'm sure it is - but that leaves the engineer with the calculation to do of "time this commercial tool will save me" versus "time/goodwill I will burn trying to get the purchase approved".

This is also true of SaaS dev tools.

There are plenty of ways to reduce friction. In this case, mold could have offered a 30 day commercial license to the company to demo the linker and see if the ROI was worth it.

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