Hot take, don't @ me: AGPL should never have been an OSI approved license.

The license is basically a compliance trap, and I would posit that > 99% of modified AGPL software violates the license.

This leads to a world where license enforcement is entirely up to arbitrary decisions by the copyright owner. Any contributor to an AGPL software package (without CLA) can go and mass-send C&Ds and/or request $$$, kind of like the Creative Commons copyright trolls have been doing for CC-BY violations.

Intentionally Permissive Licensing

I decided to write down my personal views on licensing and why most of my projects are licensed…

Flameeyes's Weblog
@flameeyes @delroth that was a rabbit hole to dive into

takeaways:

FSFE sucks about as much as FSF

AGPL is a clusterfuck

Apache-2.0 is a clusterfuck too