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On 21/04/21 22:02, Andrey Rahmatullin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2021 at 08:54:45PM +0200, Davide Prina wrote:

>> I would like to suggest to use always the AGPL license

> c) think how should it be applied to this
> particular software.

I think that in future some player will let you have all your software 
on-line. You will need to have only a thin-client-like that let you to 
access the "cloud" and you will have all here.
So every thing that have an user interface can be protected with the 
AGPL and not let the "cloud provider" to do everything he would like 
with your software without giving back nothing.

I think that this scenario can be very dangerous for free software and 
the only way to protect you software is to use the AGPL also for things 
that have not a user interface, as a library.

In this scenario nearly all the software can be not free software and 
"they" can use free software to build not free software products 
legally... except if you use AGPL.

Also in this scenario all the free software can be less interoperable 
and less usable to do things, it is very simple to do that.
For example look at Firefox. I see a "war" against Firefox from a lot of 
players that not let their software working correctly or fully working 
on Firefox (see, for example, a lot of videoconferencing software). This 
obligate a lot of user to use other browser and this is the first step 
for take away users from Firefox.
You can say that there is Chromium, but also Chromium not always work 
correctly... without some proprietary parts that are in Chrome, Edge, ...
Note also that there are pressure to Mozilla to build Firefox on Chromium...

Ciao
Davide

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  Re: Debian and GG Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-04-21 12:50 +0200
    Re: Debian and GG "Yao Wei (魏銘廷)" <mwei@debian.org> - 2021-04-21 13:20 +0200
      Re: Debian and GG Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-04-21 13:40 +0200
    Re: Debian and GG Marc Haber <mh+debian-project@zugschlus.de> - 2021-04-21 13:30 +0200
    Re: Debian and GG Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2021-04-21 21:10 +0200
      Re: Debian and GG Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-04-21 22:20 +0200
        Re: Debian and GG <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-04-21 22:40 +0200
        Re: Debian and GG Davide Prina <davide.prina@gmail.com> - 2021-04-24 10:50 +0200
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        Re: Debian and GG Jacob Lifshay <programmerjake@gmail.com> - 2021-04-30 15:50 +0200
        Re: Debian and GG Clément Hermann <nodens@debian.org> - 2021-04-30 16:30 +0200
        Re: Debian and GG Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-04-30 16:30 +0200
          Re: Debian and GG Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk> - 2021-04-30 17:10 +0200
            Re: Debian and GG Andrey Rahmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2021-04-30 17:30 +0200
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