@sneak @cnx GPL is nonfree because you are forced to make public private modifications that were made on your *own* hardware if those algorithms are used by customers you only gave the resulting binary to.

When you provide a remote interface to your program, then any remote user will also become the user of your program. But those remote users do not have the same freedoms as defined by rms which is a problem that agpl attempts to solve - it treats all that send commands to the software, whether by hand or network, as equal.