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What's with the move to MIT over AGPL for utilities?
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Yeah I get that point, and so my point is that if the use case is important enough that they'd be able to justify allocating that personnel, I use the AGPL to give them that nudge. When it's just some non-critical component, then I'll just slap an MIT on it and be done with it.
The only problem is companies will always try to use MIT and using it for small projects will set a precedent. And we don't have a governing body strong enough to enforce the GPL (nobody listens to the FSF)
Ha, well, if my single-digit-downloads (all by me) NPM module is influential enough to set precedent, then I'd consider that a success.