On 13 July 2017 at 11:27, Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> Can developers
incorporate GPL software while wholly circumventing the FSF's social goals? This paradigm needs to be addressed but IMO has been largely ignored for an assortment of reasons.
I believe the answer is that yes they can. This appears to be why the AGPL license exists as per this: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.en.html
It exists, but barely <https://www.blackducksoftware.com/top-open-source-licenses>, to the point of irrelevance. And even the description of the license admits that it doesn't really solve the open/closed issues inherent in SaaS. So my point stands that this is an important facet of software freedom that has been lost amidst the dogmatism of "free software" versus "open source". - Evan