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> That led eventually to AGPL, a kind of fork of GPL

Yes.

> but outside FSF

Initially. The current version was published by the FSF in 2007.



I wasn't clear. The reciprocal licenses that require sharing alike, with or without distribution, came from outside FSF.


Ah, gotcha. AGPL also came from outside the FSF in its original form, but was adopted (and later extended).


Pre-FSF Emacs from Stallman came with a request to send any/all changes made back to Stallman.

https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/freedom/ch06.html




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