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the alternative is/was BSD.

enterprise hates AGPL. AGPL is generally not a serious alternative to BSD/MIT in corpoland, because something something (A)GPL-poisoning.

whether it's true or not doesn't matter. what matters is whether big tech considers AGPL infectious - which they do.



> whether it's true or not doesn't matter

It matters a lot. A company could potentially make choice that saves them a lot of money, so they better base their decisions on accurate information rather than rumours.

(Note also that big tech have different incentives)




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