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		adrianN on Jan 15, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Nebula – a distributed graph database wri... AGPL is super-banned at all companies because lawyers deem it a huge risk. In particular it's banned at Amazon. IIRC you aren't even allowed to have AGPL software on your laptop at all.

ethbro on Jan 15, 2020 [–]

In my experience enterprise lawyers deem everything they can't be 100% certain about a huge risk. Legal CYA.

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