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I'd recommend pretty strongly against the AGPL. I know it sounds good when you want to "screw $megacorp," but it actually has all sorts of legal wrinkles in it that make ensuring compliance almost impossible in some cases. The end result is that people paranoid about getting sued about license problems will just not use your code most of the time, and that feels like damage done to the community, not help.

Sounds like something people used to say about the GPL itself before it became boringly normal for megacorps to use it.

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