I'm not sure this is the place to be asking this, so please redirect me if necessary.
I'm working on a payment-routing server (http://ripple.sf.net/), and I'd like to release it under a license that obliges those who build services on it to also release the source for those services. Applications built on top of would essentially be accounting systems that interact with the server over a socket (likely using HTTP), but that interaction is quite complex, requiring several different types of callbacks to the accounting system. Would the Affero GPL work for me? Would an application on top of my server be considered a "single system" with that server for the purposes of the GPL? What if there was, or could theoretically be, another server like mine that uses the same API, so the application could plug in a different server? Is this important, or is the fact that someone *is* using my server tightly integrated with their application the relevant fact? A similar example to consider might be if I was releasing a database server under the AGPL. If someone used it in their web app, would they be obliged to release their app source under the [A]GPL as well? Would it matter if my db server or its interface was generic or unique/specialized? Thanks, Ryan _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss