Why isn't there an LGPL version for AGPL? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 11 hours ago by IsaamoonKHGDT_6143@lemmy.zip to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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There are different versions of the GPL license, ranging from the lightweight copyleft LGPL to the strong copyleft AGPL.

But if the LGPL is a lighter copyleft version of the GPL, why isn't there a lighter copyleft version of the AGPL?

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 hours ago

I imagine, the scenario would be that the cloud service links against a library under the supposed new license.
And then, even if you're just using the cloud service over the network, you can demand changes to the source code of that library to be open-sourced.