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olalonde on Nov 19, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Comcast injects JavaScript into webpages to show c...

The AGPL was designed to fix this "loophole": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License

teddyh on Nov 19, 2015 [–]

AGPL fixes this problem for backend code running on the web server, which is technically not distributed, so GPLv2 does not apply. For Javascript code, the code is distributed to the web browser, so even GPLv2 applies.

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