Underfunding or why I am not interested

[Aaron Wolf]

Hi,


> What are you protecting from with AGPL?
> --
> anatoly t.
>
>
The purpose of AGPL is to block software from becoming proprietary. It is
an anti-proprietary license. Those who use it believe that software ought
not ever be proprietary. Whether that is tactically sensible or not is a
complex discussion.

I suggest reading this, as it will give valuable perspective:
http://dustycloud.org/blog/field-guide-to-copyleft/

It is also consistent to say that you care about freedom and believe that
AGPL is less free than CC0, but *only* if you also recognize that
proprietary software is obviously much less free. If you're ok with
proprietary, you should be ok with AGPL, which is clearly much much more
free than proprietary.

But you seem to be arguing not that AGPL is bad for freedom but merely that
it isn't a good tactic for making the software successful. That's a fine
argument. Not everyone may agree. It's complex how to choose the right
compromises.

Either way, please don't conflate the words "commercial" and "proprietary"
though. It is perfectly fine for Free Software to be commercial and stay
free-as-in-freedom.

Cheers,
Aaron
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