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

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MoaHub, Graeme Gellatly
- 13/09/2025 22:58:22
I have zero time for what academics think, honestly. As for reddit, omg.  That whole thread was basically the 2009 Microsoft FUD parroted word for word with a bit of Oracle post Sun acquisition thrown in.

Court cases and precedent are what matter. Public is a fairly precise definition in law and  the MS interpretation just defies belief. 

I am 100% comfortable with where I sit, I know everybody disagrees with me here, and I am fine with it.






Le sam. 13 sept. 2025, 23:47, Frederik Kramer <notifications@odoo-community.org> a écrit :
Hi Greame,

there is amble debate on when an AGPL licenced software is actually made 
publicly available. To cases where it is pretty clear (to me and most 
people that i know do academic research on the matter):

1.) Your company is actually consisting of more then one legal entities 
collaborating on the same system (e.g. holding structure)

2.) If you use E-Commerce ar any means of direct user acces (like portal 
functions)

3.) If you let externals to your company access to the software (even 
with a VPN), e.g. freelancer use cases, suppliers, customers

Furthermore as soon as you modify anything you implicitely agree to the 
license liabilities

See 
https://www.reddit.com/r/opensource/comments/1hh25a0/agpl_for_software_hosted_internally/ 
for a little bit of debate on the matter

Best Frederik

Am 13.09.25 um 13:02 schrieb Graeme Gellatly:


>


> The simplest way is to just not accept the license and not propagate 


> the AGPL licensed work. As long as you are using it unmodified, there 


> is no requirement to accept. Clause 9 is quite clear. 


> Conveyance/propagation as a combined work is easily avoided.



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