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Linus basically killed the GPL3 - and I think he is right. I don’t like it either - it’s overreach for a 10 clause contract - hence the “we need another way, through politics, not putting so much weight on a contract / license that has only ever been to court once I think?

The AGPL is easy to comply with, even for SaaSS corporations. It should not cause any fear. Just either use the code unmodified, or release your modifications to your customers.

> AGPL instills fear into SAAS corporations

When I brought the same thing up on Lobste.rs, someone pointed out that AWS has no problems selling a hosted Grafana, which uses the AGPL. (https://aws.amazon.com/grafana/)

I'm not sure the AGPL is as fearsome as imagined, even with its restrictions.