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SCALE: The life and times of the AGPL

Posted Mar 14, 2013 13:04 UTC (Thu) by njwhite (subscriber, #51848)
In reply to: SCALE: The life and times of the AGPL by khim
Parent article: SCALE: The life and times of the AGPL

> The fact that existing web software quickly becomes quite a mess after deployment (because there are local modifications you can not easily upgrade to latest-and-greatest version and because it's not upgraded it contains plethora of well-known security holes) is bad for other reason but till this mess will not be fixed AGPL can not change the situation.

This is an issue in the web programming world, it seems, indeed. Whether the sort of people who are so slapdash are the sort of people who would respect free software licenses is an interesting question. Frankly the loss of code modifications by people who are too incompetent to separate their code from the framework and configuration they use is probably not such a big deal ;)

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