“The GNU Affero GPL v3 has recently been published, eventually
closing the ‘Software as a Service Loophole,’ preventing code
covered by AGPL to be offered as a service without modifications
being published. Simon Phipps is surprised SugarCRM didn’t wait for
Affero, while Michael Tiemann would like to see the AGPL tested in
the marketplace.“Simon and Michael raise an interesting point, in this post my
final objective is to understand whether SugarCRM should or not
adopt the AGPL. First, some background on the CRM market and
SugarCRM…”
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