liftoff/GateOne — Issue #24: AGPL can't realistically apply to browser code?
Author: coolaj86
Created: 2011-10-18 06:53:39+00:00
State: open

How about an MIT license?

What does AGPL even mean in the browser? If the code is jitted along with other code in Safari, does that mean running the client is Safari (or Opera, or Chrome-not-Chromium) is against the license?

Am I allowed to use the client code in a commercial application without it infecting my entire application?

This is an absolutely amazing concept, but AGPL is closed source as far as I'm concerned - there are just too many legal issues for me to consider using it for anything other that research or concept demos.

As far as the python server goes, I don't care if that's AGPL or not - a reverse proxy through another application should mitigate legal issues well enough, but the browser / client code really needs another license.