The Free Software Foundation has released a new License, the GNU Affero General Public License. As much as I respect the FSF, this new license is horrible and should be taken out back and shot.

But there's good news for people who want to use AGPL-licensed software without complying with the spirit of it's awful restrictions. Basically, this rubbish is so poorly worded that it's almost trivially easy to work around. The intent was that if you run AGPL software on your webserver, for example, then you must have a "download link" for your site's users to retrieve their own copy, complete with any modifications you've made. That's not what they actually say, though. Here's how to use their own words against them.