[DAO:6ddc275] Allow also GNU License for platform parallel contributions

Hi sure, it’s not technical but legal, on what Im neither an expert, I were explaining in discord also, I copy/paste:

You can use packages with both licenses in the same project. but AGPL-3 , enforces any project using it to be also AGPL-3.

Imagine you make an open-source tool under Apache 2, Microsoft can take it, modify it, and sell as own non open-source private product, they just need to notice the use of your tool.
with AGPL-3, Microsoft would be enforced to keep the same license and be open-source with any modification of it, or any product using it as a dependency.
with AGPL-3, if someone forks it, and make modifications, it’s mandatory that the product with modifications is open-source also with same license, cannot be private.
Unless you are the author; you dont need any license if you are already the author I think.

Blender, Wordpress, Linux, VLC, Telegram, etc. are GNU GPL

So, the proposal is not to force to use this license but to allow it as other option besides Apache 2 for platform grants. Mostly for people that wants everything to be open-source.

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