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icebraining on Aug 13, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: GitHub stars won’t pay your rent

I don't get the concern; if the AGPL is invalid, then the software user is even more screwed: they have no license to use it at all. Wining such a dispute would be a pyrrhic victory.

tannhaeuser on Aug 13, 2019 [–]

That's an interpretation a court might not agree with. We don't really know until cases are brought up in all relevant jurisdictions.

Edit: and another question alltogether is whether it's going to work well against FAANG with nearly unlimited cash to employ hordes of lawyers

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