btchris,

I am Armory Technologies, Inc.'s COO and General Counsel, and although I am not an IP attorney, I can hopefully provide a brief response to the problem that you have highlighted regarding a great deal of open sourced software and what Armory's intent has always been regarding its license. We hesitate to make any modification to the AGPL 3, since we are relying on the critical mass of acceptance of AGPL 3 that give it its legal credibility.

ATI believes that the use of Armory or Armoryd, licensed under the AGPL 3, as a backend application that interacts with any information from the Internet, causes all software in between Armoryd and the Internet to also be AGPL 3 licensed. Therefore, the source code is required to be publicly available.

We encourage developers who desire to customize or use Armory/Armoryd in other processes to contact us regarding custom licensing terms. If you seek to run an exchange or webshop with Armoryd as the backend and you do not want your exchange or webshop code to be publicly available under AGPL 3, then a custom license is necessary.