It&#x27;s just that many people want to be able to use the software by doing modifications to it for their secret sauce. And they don&#x27;t want to share the sauce. AGPL forces you to share it, even if you don&#x27;t distribute the software: as long as you make a service with your modified version, you are legally entitled to share the modifications.<p>Of course, it&#x27;s almost impossible to prove IRL, but still, a lot of corporations have problems with that. They want the free open source project to make them earn money, no price to pay.