[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I don't think that issue is a closed one. As you and others have >mentioned in other threads, the GPLv3 will probably have a Affero-type >clause. Several people, at least, have spoken up in favor of this sort >of clause being both in the spirit of the GPL and the DFSG. I fully agree. The Affero GPL was declared non-free at a time when debian-legal was dominated by the "everything is a restriction" crowd, but this principle nowadays keeps being contested for not being a valid interpretation of the DFSG.
>I would love to see web.py in Debian. I suspect that, one way or >another, the this issue will be resolved in the GPLv3 process. :) Hopefully the GPLv3 will have provisions to allow reusing code from this kind of applications in other applications which by design do not provide network services, which I understand is the main contentious point. -- ciao, Marco -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]