@arran the agpl says you have to provide the source of your private fork if you use the software to offer service via the internet. you do not have to publish the source if you make a private fork and run it only locally. this means you are compelled to publish source for starting a webserver process. this is insane. the whole point of free software is to be able to build on and improve it, and the source code to a network service is useless to most other than the api operator.

@arran furthermore it was only developed in response to the "ASP loophole", as if running a service provider and offering *service* (not software) were a loophole to be eradicated.

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@arran if i'm free to use the software for any legal purpose, i'm free to modify it to provide services to people (and preserve those modifications as private!)

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