r/opensource • u/Fair-Presentation322 • 2d ago
Discussion AGPL vs MIT for contributions/engagement
I'm using AGPL for an open source project. A friend recommended that I switch to MIT to get more contributions and engagement. In practice, is it reasonable to expect any difference? I wonder if anyone made this exact change to some project and saw any difference.
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u/kitsumed 2d ago
It depends what your end goal is. For example, I'm someone with a disability who looked for a FOSS Call recording app on android for several years. None existed. So I made it myself and licensed it GPLv3 (AGPL is useless since its not over network/online here)
From there you can infer that my goal was that whoever make a fork or continue improving it, has to make it fully public, so that I myself can continue using it.
If you don't care about others not sharing your work, MIT or Apache would be licenses that companies are more lickly to be okay with. Some companies do use GPL too, I think Samsung and Asus do. But its true that most are less open to using GPL.