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"AGPL doesn't work for modern day problems. The problem you have is that you are developing an open source bit of infrastructure and your only method of profiting is your own hosted version giving people the option of getting it for free and managing hosting, or letting you do it for a small profit."

AGPL is for code, not for infrastructure, and you can still profit off of AGPL-licensed code by:

1 - selling support for it

2 - getting donations

3 - asking for money in return for working on feature requests

4 - being paid by a corporations to work on an open source product they themselves use and profit from



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