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48 48  **Copyleft Licenses**
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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 exa
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, then the whole project must be AGPL licensed as well.
53 53  * another is when a software uses an external AGPL service via network. Here are two cases: