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FSF Releases AGPL License For Web Services
mako writes "The Free Software Foundation has released the Affero General Public license version 3. The license is essentially the GPLv3 with an added clause that requires that source code be distributed to users that interact with the application over a network. The license effectively extends copyright to Web applications. The new AGPL will have important effects for companies that, under the GPL, have no obligation to distribute changes to users on the Web. This release adds the license to the stable of official FSF licenses and is compatible with the GPLv3."
If your "private development" in use on a public website, then it isn't really private.
1. Relicense your application under a compatible license. Again: this is completely up to you! Nobody can force you to relicense your software.
2. Remove any dependencies on the library in question, by rewriting (parts of) your code.
3. Ask the copyright holders of the library in question whether they'll grant you a commercial license, possibly for a fee. 4. Don't use any GPL'd software, ever. This is the simplest way, and why GPLv3 software will never gain adoption by any company actually interested in protection of their assets. The use of GPLv3 software opens any private company to possible liability for license violations; moreso than use of any other form of software licensing (including GPLv2).
GPLv3 software is useless to anybody working in any form of business.
- Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set him on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
You seem to be overlooking the fact that your so called internal algorithms are actually derivative works.