Bill Allombert writes ("Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project"): > I am fine with the stated purpose of the AGPLv3, however I do not think the > actual implementation is compatible with free software. > > There have been no official clarification how the AGPLv3 is supposed > to work in a lot of situation and how it is compatible with the > plain reading of the license. Without them, I am wary of declaring > the AGPL a free software license. There is a world of difference > between the actual text of the AGPLv3 and how it is advertised.
Perhaps I haven't looked in the right places but either I don't see the same concerns as you do, or I haven't seen them, or I don't think they're relevant for the project I'm thinking of.[1] Nevertheless your opinion is interesting to me because I want to know what people in general think of the AGPL. So if you have concerns that would apply to such a project, which you think are more clearly expressed or more relevant to me than those I've already seen, I'd be interested to know. FYI the project is a substantial database-backed web application, whose infrastructure could easily accomodate a copy of its own source code, and with which users interact via web browsers and email. > But it is probably not the right venue to discuss the AGPLv3. Perhaps not. But I don't want to use debian-legal whose focus is on DFSG compatibility and whose on-list consensus judgements don't always seem to align with the actual decisions of those responsible for these judgements within Debian. Ian. [1] I found these: https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/08/msg00045.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/11/msg00232.html http://bugs.debian.org/495721 https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/03/msg00380.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/09/msg00032.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-project-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/21162.4682.142959.840...@chiark.greenend.org.uk