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From: Alejandro Colomar <alx-AT-kernel.org>

Hi all,

As you know, I’ve been maintaining the Linux man-pages project for the last 4 years as a voluntary. I’ve been doing it in my free time, and no company has sponsored that work at all. At the moment, I cannot sustain this work economically any more, and will temporarily and indefinitely stop working on this project. If any company has interests in the future of the project, I’d welcome an offer to sponsor my work here; if so, please let me know.

Have a lovely day! Alex

  • skulbuny@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    AGPL? Google has a ban on all AGPL software. Sounds like if you write AGPL software, corporations won’t steal it.

    Code licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) MUST NOT be used at Google.

    The license places restrictions on software used over a network which are extremely difficult for Google to comply with. Using AGPL software requires that anything it links to must also be licensed under the AGPL. Even if you think you aren’t linking to anything important, it still presents a huge risk to Google because of how integrated much of our code is. The risks heavily outweigh the benefits.

    Any FLOSS license that makes a corporation shit its pants like this is good enough to start from IMO.

    https://opensource.google/documentation/reference/using/agpl-policy