I put together a post regarding the most common misconceptions and misrepresentations I see regarding the AGPLv3 license, with real world examples for each:
just curious should projects AGPL be used for local programs, as the network obligations AGPL demands, can just be skipped over if the local program doesn’t even deal with any of that, wouldn’t it slowly reduce the need for so many GPL family licenses, gnu already has an article about not using LGPL, so that copyleft programs have an advantage over proprietary programs.
While it could, I guess it’d depend on if you want network use to be considered as distribution. That’s quite a significant difference to consider so authors may specifically not want to impose such a requirement within the licensing their software, so I think it’s better as a choice, relative to the benefit of one less license existing.
Even if local only, it’s added license complexity to consider and impacts the reuse of that code in projects which could be have network use.