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Plausible relicenses to AGPL

([Development] Oct 13, 2020 14:06 UTC (Tue) (corbet))


[1]Plausible , a web-analytics package that was [2]reviewed here in June , has [3]announced a move from the MIT license to the Affero GPL, version 3. " This change makes no difference to any of you who subscribe to Plausible Cloud or who self-host Plausible, but it may upset a few corporations who tried to use our software to directly compete with us without contributing back. "



[1] https://plausible.io/

[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/822568/

[3] https://plausible.io/blog/open-source-licenses

> Also another major deciding factor is availability of source code.
> It just gives everybody a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that there is
> source code available to the product you are using. It allows everybody
> to improve on the product and fix bugs etc. sooner than the author(s)
> would get the time/chance to.

I think this is one the really BIG reasons for the snowball/onslaught
of Linux and the wealth of stuff available that gets enhanced faster
than the real vendors can keep up.
-- Norman