[durin42]

Or listen to Daniel Berlin, who's both an accomplished GCC hacker and a lawyer:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9956542 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13979443

This isn't settled law, and DannyBee would be quick to point out that the practice of law has a major component of risk management.

[woofie11]

I don't think Daniel contradicts Eben, at least in the link here...

There are good rationales and bad rationales for a decision. Google made a good decision with a bad rationale. Daniel made a good decision with a good rationale. Why does this matter? If I'm running my own business, my business context won't be the same as Google's. There are times to pick AGPL, and times to not pick it, and that requires accurately understanding the law.

[joshuamorton]

You realize that Daniel works for Google, and is one of the people who makes such decisions about OSS for Google, so if you think he made the decision with a good rationale, then so did Google, since his decision was Google's.