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.
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.