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ricardobeat 49 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Chatto is now open source

AGPL stops others from running a competing cloud service using the Go backend. It does nothing for the frontend except scare off enterprise users.

nyc_pizzadev 49 days ago [–]

You can totally run AGPL code as a service. You can run it as a service unmodified or if you modify it, you just need to make the source available.

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