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off-topic but i’m so licensing ignorant that each time something like this comes up i have no idea what’s being said. is there a good ELI5 resource where i can get started with licensing permissiveness?


I like the website GitHub put together, here’s the AGPL v3 page: https://choosealicense.com/licenses/agpl-3.0


For an explanation in practice see below. From someone pro-AGPL seeking enforcement of the licence.

https://raymii.org/s/blog/I_enforced_the_AGPL_on_my_code_her...


You can build closed source products into and on top of MIT and Apache licenses. AGPL code can’t be a part of a project unless you license everything that you write as a GPL kind of license as well.


GNU is a good source for copyleft license info. Iirc they also address other open source licenses. https://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html. Also https://choosealicense.com/ is good for some tldr info




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