I don’t think that copyright enforcement should be used against me based on whether or not I run a webserver alongside a modified application or not.
I’m all on board with copyleft in general, but the “service provider loophole” just seems like anti-business sentiment. People using modified free software to provide services useful enough to pay for is a good thing.
Forcing someone to publish their own changes simply because they run a business always seems to me like violent coercion, using copyright as a stick; much moreso than forcing someone to release source for object code they are already releasing.
Free software is a tool. Using that tool to create a successful business isn’t cheating anyone out of anything.
The software is absolutely not free as in freedom if I have one set of rights with the ethernet cable unplugged and a different set of rights with the ethernet cable connected.
Stop the service provider hate and avoid the AGPL and AGPL software.
I’m all on board with copyleft in general, but the “service provider loophole” just seems like anti-business sentiment. People using modified free software to provide services useful enough to pay for is a good thing.
Forcing someone to publish their own changes simply because they run a business always seems to me like violent coercion, using copyright as a stick; much moreso than forcing someone to release source for object code they are already releasing.
Free software is a tool. Using that tool to create a successful business isn’t cheating anyone out of anything.
The software is absolutely not free as in freedom if I have one set of rights with the ethernet cable unplugged and a different set of rights with the ethernet cable connected.
Stop the service provider hate and avoid the AGPL and AGPL software.