@Elucidating well, #AGPLv3 and #GPLv3 demand things that are often not legally possible, like providing free and perpetual licenses to #patents and #tech adjacent to it.

That - among many other considerations, is why #Linux is #GPLv2only!

If you want to commit #AssetDenial, then #GPLv3 & #AGLv3 is for you but I've run that experiment too and it doesn't get any more contributions out of people than #0BSD.

Now you may think my shitty little projects like @OS1337 & #NUCbook don't count and that is valid, but @landley did maintain #BusyBox and he did the test as well and all the #litigation and #enforcement resulted in 0 lines of #code being contributed back to BusyBox...

And the folks behind #Samba now regret going GPLv3...
https://mstdn.jp/@landley/112135455741147578

Rob Landley (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] Linus Torvalds explained his dislike of GPLv3 here: https://youtu.be/PaKIZ7gJlRU Jeremy Allison (The Samba maintainer) gave a half hour talk on how much he now regrets moving to GPLv3 here: https://archive.org/details/copyleftconf2020-allison (Samba usage fell off a cliff when it went gplv3: Linux created ksmbd in the kernel, and Apple created smbx explicitly because gplv3: https://www.osnews.com/story/24572/apple-ditches-samba-in-favour-of-homegrown-replacement/ ) When GCC went GPLv3 development on LLVM took off, etc. Dozens of examples..

mstdn.jp

@msw #AGLv3 rocks. It enables the kind of win-win sharing and community development for networked services that local only software has benefited from for decades.

When corporations tell you AGPL is scary and incompatible with developers earning a living, and offer their own "business-friendly" alternatives, don't be fooled.