Hard to run an open source enterprise company when Amazon's playbook is to take your shit for free and host it themselves.

Red Hat had over a billion dollars in revenue last year and it's never stopped growing. Free Red Hat-compatible operating systems did not stop them from making a lot of money.

Wouldn't using an AGPL license be better for this than just GPL?

That would be a hilarious way to lose every customer over night.

Why would customers leave you if your product was AGPL?

I think it's extremely common for companies to sit every engineer down during onboarding and say "never touch code with these licenses". Certainly in my experience it is.

MongoDB was AGPL before moving to the SSPL. So this doesn't make sense.

Because people are stupid. Never underestimate stupidity.

In all seriousness, it’s just that the AGPL considers network use to be distribution and thus entitled to the source[https://medium.com/swlh/understanding-the-agpl-the-most-misu...]

This terrifies people for some reason. Basically because they want the freedom to modify open source projects and call it their own without giving back to the project that actually created it.

The stupid people are lawyers and they definitely seem to think they have a good reason.

All stupid people think they are right. Give me one concrete AGPL case that justifies their aversion.

Anyway, it's their loss.

Is there an AGPL case that can be used to say "there's no risk" ?

MongoDB rose to fame on the back of the AGPL.

I meant a legal case. That's what lawyers are going to want - not an absence of cases but one that has already happened.

Honestly, go talk to your org's lawyer.

Rocky and Alma are the bad actors who caused this.