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Re: Licence question: using AGPL and Odoo proprietary modules on the same server

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Komit Consulting, Jean-Charles Drubay
- 08/09/2025 12:30:58
Hi,

Should the conclusion of this discussion be published on https://odoo-community.org/ ? It would really help for the  future.

About personal opinion, I also find that LGPL is not blocking Open Source contributions, on the contrary.

I find it difficult to work with AGPL modules, the constraints are too strict. As an example, the below modules being AGPL is really painful. They are base modules to build a lot of other modules on top which could be OPL, and this would encourage more contribution back into these modules:
Regards,

Jean-Charles Drubay, Komit


On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 5:07 PM Frederik Kramer <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:
Hi Pedro,

i personally doubt that this would be the end. You know i am a Open 
Source lover from the deepest of my heart.

There is also research that suggest evidence that weak or non copyleft 
license are even dominant. See 
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167923611001242 for 
reference

Anyway its certainly beyond me personally take decisions on that matter. 
This is solely each PSCs individual choice i guess (not even a global 
one). The only thing i see is that we potentially dillute the total 
economic power (as measure by integrators their developers to contribute 
or commercial entities of users supporting the community with money or 
hiring their own engineers and let them contribute) to maintain a given 
body of moduls by a potentially wrong choice.

But probably we can discuss that next week f2f. Looking forward to see 
you there

Best Frederik


Am 08.09.25 um 11:42 schrieb Pedro M. Baeza:


> Please no, don't move AGPL to LGPL. That would be the end of open 


> source and OCA. There's no ambivalence about the current OCA's 


> position. Enric has pointed out the basis on that.


>


> Regards.


>


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