Philippe Ombredanne

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You are making an excellent point that I have tried to explain before several time in answers at http://opensource.stackexchange.com

I made a new detailed QA there and I quoted you and this article: http://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/5003/agplv3-source-redist…

The key point is that AGPL's "network copyleft" is triggered by conveying. And using unmodified (even in a public web app) is not conveying but at best merely propagating and is in this case the copyleft is not triggered. This is a subtle but essential difference IMHO.