As much as FOSS people circlejerk about it, GPL and other copyleft licenses don't actually prevent giant megacorps from using your code. They'll just do it quietly and dare you to try suing their billion-dollar legal department when you catch them.
Nothing stops Amazon from spinning up millions of instances of some GPL program or library on their own machines and renting access to it. The GPL makes sense for end-user software like a web browser or a word processor, but it is woefully insufficient for middleware and services.
As much as FOSS people circlejerk about it, GPL and other copyleft licenses don't actually prevent giant megacorps from using your code. They'll just do it quietly and dare you to try suing their billion-dollar legal department when you catch them.
But the law ! :BibleThump:
Nothing stops Amazon from spinning up millions of instances of some GPL program or library on their own machines and renting access to it. The GPL makes sense for end-user software like a web browser or a word processor, but it is woefully insufficient for middleware and services.
The AGPL stops exactly that, in theory of course.