The Affero General Public License (AGPL) is similar to GPL 3.0, insofar as it’s a “strong” copyleft license that promotes software freedoms and ensures modified versions remain open source.

Better, perhaps, for people who want to benefit from free software in their own non-free software. I suspect that people who choose to license their code under the GPL don't see that as a good thing.

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The more radical free software advocates wanted the license to force Web service providers to deliver the source code to their Web applications if they used any GPL software. This is not currently ...

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The Free Software Foundation (FSF) hopes to release the final draft of the GNU General Public License Version 3 (GPL v3) by Jan. 1, 2007, a lawyer involved in writing the license said Tuesday.