Hector Martin on Nostr: 1) The reality is that licenses like the AGPL (and potentially the EUPL, though it's ...

1) The reality is that licenses like the AGPL (and potentially the EUPL, though it's not that popular yet) are being abused by enterprises that want to appear hip and FOSS-friendly by releasing their CLA'd to hell product under license terms that they are not subject to (as the copyright owners) while offering a "commercial" version where they make all the money, and the onerous terms of these licenses make it easy for them to go after third-party usage or stifle real FOSS forks, essentially creating a "source available" product that masquerades as FOSS and even leeches on the FOSS community by accepting CLA'd contributions.

2) A lot of AGPL and EUPL software is not actually a network service, and some companies ban such licenses across the board (for good reason), despite them offering nothing to that class of software. So then they just devolve into "fuck large corps" licenses without any actual benefit to the FOSS-iness of the software itself, and that can backfire and end up pushing away contributors.