"Free Software Foundation Announces Support of the Affero General Public License, the First Copyleft License for Web Services" http://www.fsf.org/press/2002-03-19-Affero.html
I think clause Affero GPL 2(d) provides for the propagation of "badgeware", meaning that it obligates propagation of a brand or mark. The important bit is "you must not remove that facility." I find that this 2(d) operates much differently than GPL 2(c). GPL clause 2(c) obligates providing "a" run-time notice under certain conditions. In other words, 2(c) does not specify that a _specific_ notice is to be preserved. In contrast, Affero 2(d) does. How does this work in practice? If there is a "download" graphic, I think the only way to comply is that you keep the graphic. If there is a paragraph with superfluous marketing, you must keep paragraph. This lets the originator insert branding and propaganda, and forces it to be propagated. This is unnecessary. I suggest that software freedom is preserved fully if you delete the part of 2(d) I placed in brackets below. I hold that that bracketed text is an unnecessary compromise of freedom, serves no useful purpose except to promote branding, and should be removed before this license gets the full support of the Free Software Movement. In making the deletion, some further adjustment may be necessary, so that the important text "modified version of the Program or work based on the Program" appears. (the funny word spacing comes directly from the HTML.) * d) If the Program as you received it is intended to interact with users through a computer network and if, in the version you received, any user interacting with the Program was given the opportunity to request transmission to that user of the Program's complete source code, you [must not remove that facility from your modified version of the Program or work based on the Program, and] must offer an equivalent opportunity for all users interacting with your Program through a computer network to request immediate transmission by HTTP of the complete source code of your modified version or other derivative work. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3