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> require all browsers to be open source AGPL in order to load a web page served by it

Don't be silly: a web server is not distributing a web browser, and thus when you visit news.ycombinator.com, they don't have influence over whether you do that via netcat, curl, or Awesome AGPL Browser 1.0

If, however, they used https://git.deuxfleurs.fr/Deuxfleurs/tricot to serve the http request, then AIUI the AGPL entitles you, as a "13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License. (https://opensource.org/licenses/AGPL-3.0)", to ask for the source code of tricot and potentially any systems that it subsequently interacts with

I'm certain I'm going to regret posting this, given how hot-button the AGPL is in every one of these threads



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