The Patreon integration seems to be broken, but it’s alpha software so I can’t blame them. The UI seems to be a lot better than a lot of alternative clients, including Newpipe.
I get his “down with the corporations” stance, but AGPL + basic copyright law will scare away the corpos just as easily, without limiting user freedom. The plugins for third party platforms all seem to be GPLv3 licensed, so they do know about better licenses (though I’m guessing that’s just to comply with some GPL dependency they use to access Youtube).
Netflix isn’t going to release something that they have to publish ALL code for, including their DRM library. AGPL is to corporations like garlic is to vampires, it scares away all the big ones and only leaves the ones that weren’t going to care about your silly little license anyway. Google famously bans all use of AGPL tools internally. However, good luck getting Tencent China to pay you a dime when they steal your code, or going after Huawei when they fork the project and stuff it full of CCP spyware.
The thing is that AGPL is also viral to network services. If a piece of AGPL makes it into the code that renders the Google homepage, they’re technically obliged to hand over the source code to the entirety of the software that piece of software is included in, just because AGPL code generated the HTML.
The risks don’t outweigh the benefits, Google concludes. I think that proves the effectiveness of AGPL as a way to scare of big corporations more than anything.
The Patreon integration seems to be broken, but it’s alpha software so I can’t blame them. The UI seems to be a lot better than a lot of alternative clients, including Newpipe.
I get his “down with the corporations” stance, but AGPL + basic copyright law will scare away the corpos just as easily, without limiting user freedom. The plugins for third party platforms all seem to be GPLv3 licensed, so they do know about better licenses (though I’m guessing that’s just to comply with some GPL dependency they use to access Youtube).
Netflix isn’t going to release something that they have to publish ALL code for, including their DRM library. AGPL is to corporations like garlic is to vampires, it scares away all the big ones and only leaves the ones that weren’t going to care about your silly little license anyway. Google famously bans all use of AGPL tools internally. However, good luck getting Tencent China to pay you a dime when they steal your code, or going after Huawei when they fork the project and stuff it full of CCP spyware.
Wow, TIL. That is pretty heavy handed…
The thing is that AGPL is also viral to network services. If a piece of AGPL makes it into the code that renders the Google homepage, they’re technically obliged to hand over the source code to the entirety of the software that piece of software is included in, just because AGPL code generated the HTML.
The risks don’t outweigh the benefits, Google concludes. I think that proves the effectiveness of AGPL as a way to scare of big corporations more than anything.