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Discussion on: What dev topic do you think you should understand, but don't?

 
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Ben Halpern

The Saturday before we went open source with DEV, I had the sudden realization of all the last-minute details with our license to get right. I knew enough to know we had to settle on some things, but we had punted on nailing down the details and nobody in our company had a better understanding than me.

And I was at a wedding that weekend. No environment for a lot of last minute research.

And then someone walks into the the wedding ceremony wearing a GNU t-shirt. It's a bold fashion choice for a wedding. Nobody wears a GNU t-shirt to a wedding without also being seriously willing to talk about open source licenses. I knew we wanted to go GLP but I had a lot of questions.

I don't believe in god, but when that man walked into that church I felt some belief wash over me.

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Conlin Durbin

I'd love to know more about the decision to use AGPL over MIT! What was the primary motivating feature of AGPL that made you go with it?