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50 50  To address the problems with proprietary software, the FSF primarily promotes copyleft licenses, which require that any derivative works of the software be licensed under the same terms as the original code. The term "derivative work" is legally somewhat vague, but here is a common understanding is, "If the AGPL is essential for the software to work, then the software is considered a derivative product". For example:
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52 52  * When a software needs AGPL source code directly in order to build it, that means using a AGPL licensed library or directly AGPL code into the project, its a derivate work.
53 -* Another case is usage network. For example, A vendor could come up with the idea to use AGPL code for his propieatary product, but out sources it into a s seaprate service assessible via network, so it does not use the source code. This way he trie 
53 +* Another is when a software uses an external AGPL service via network. A vendor could come up with the idea to use AGPL code, but out
54 54   * If the AGPL service is not essential and an optional addition to the software
55 55   * if
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