Without cost or encumbrance, just like I would expect for a physical free book. The book would not be free if I paid nothing for it and now the author has the right to sleep on my couch legally.
An AGPL license comes with more obligations for the one publishing the code, and for others re-using that code.
Against that are more rights for the users of the final code. GPL is predicated on advocating for users' rights over developers. But that comes at the right of developers to re-use as they want.
Which one is more free is very much a matter of perspective. Claims that GPL is a more free license because it is better for users are therefore subjective, or at least subject to a very specific semantic context.
> An AGPL license comes with more obligations for the one publishing the code, and for others re-using that code.
Right, but if you buy/get a book, you can't even re-publish or re-use the content in the first place.
I'm not comparing the AGPL and the GPL. I'm only talking here about the insinuation that the AGPL is somewhat like a book author requiring readers to let them crash their couches. It's not.
