Licenses are boring but you really need one! (distractedmind.home.blog)

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It seems people have a hard time understanding the implications of licenses, so I have written a something to help with that.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

What I mean is that you (IIUC) can't use an AGPL library in a GPL app without relicensing the whole thing to AGPL. For many larger projects relicensing is a huge hassle and often a non-starter if there aren't very good reasons for it.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You're right, the explicit permission is only the other way around.

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