There are different versions of the GPL license, ranging from the lightweight copyleft LGPL to the strong copyleft AGPL.
But if the LGPL is a lighter copyleft version of the GPL, why isn’t there a lighter copyleft version of the AGPL?
There are different versions of the GPL license, ranging from the lightweight copyleft LGPL to the strong copyleft AGPL.
But if the LGPL is a lighter copyleft version of the GPL, why isn’t there a lighter copyleft version of the AGPL?
I imagine, the scenario would be that the cloud service links against a library under the supposed new license.
And then, even if you’re just using the cloud service over the network, you can demand changes to the source code of that library to be open-sourced.
And, critically distinct from the AGPL, they wouldn’t have to open source their full service — just the changes to the library.