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AGPL treats "providing services over a network" as distribution, triggering open-source obligations
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UnverifiedAGPL (Affero GPL) treats 'providing services over a network' as a form of 'distribution,' thereby closing the legal loophole of the SaaS model.76% similarUnverifiedThe core difference between AGPL-3.0 and GPL-3.0 is that AGPL includes network services within the scope of distribution, meaning source code must be disclosed even when deployed as a SaaS service76% similarVerifiedThe AGPL license requires that source code be made available even when services are provided over a network, which can effectively prevent open-source washing.75% similarUnverifiedAGPL closes the traditional GPL's ASP Loophole by treating network interaction as equivalent to distribution, requiring software that provides services over a network to also make its source code public.70% similarUnverifiedAGPL, GPL, and SSPL are open-source licenses that warrant close attention, while MIT, Apache 2.0, and the BSD family are generally commercially friendly.69% similar
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