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Which license should we pick?

Which license should we pick?“AGPL. Whoever hosts it publishes their changes. Even our acquirer.”Chris Dubois, The Sovereign

💡 WHY CHRIS IS RIGHT

Permissive licenses let anyone take the code, run it as a service and keep every improvement private. The AGPL closes that gap: anyone who runs a modified version for users over a network must offer those users the source. That keeps the project and its improvements in the commons, protects against a cloud provider selling it back to us, and guarantees the code stays forkable whoever owns the company next.

✅ RIGHT WHEN

The project is a hosted service others could resell, and keeping improvements open matters.

🚩 TOO FAR WHEN

Half the target users work at companies that ban AGPL, and the team wonders why nobody adopts it.

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