You should. I'll be encouraging all dependent projects to update to AGPL over the coming week.
--------- Matt Taylor OS Community Flag-Bearer Numenta On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 11:46 PM, Pascal Weinberger < [email protected]> wrote: > So we need to change everything build atop of nupic to that as well? > On Aug 19, 2015 2:15 AM, "Matthew Taylor" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> NuPIC and associated projects are now AGPL as of 0.2.7. >> >> http://numenta.org/blog/2015/08/17/licensing-update.html >> >> Thanks for your support. >> >> --------- >> Matt Taylor >> OS Community Flag-Bearer >> Numenta >> >> On Mon, Aug 3, 2015 at 2:29 PM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hello NuPIC, >>> >>> I wanted to let you all know that we have decided to move from GPLv3 >>> to AGPLv3. We are planning on making this change for all our OS >>> repositories that are currently GPLv3 within the next 2 weeks. >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> --------- >>> Matt Taylor >>> OS Community Flag-Bearer >>> Numenta >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 8:18 AM, Matthew Taylor <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>> > Hello NuPIC, >>> > >>> > Following is a note from Numenta CEO Donna Dubinsky about a license >>> > change we've been considering for awhile now. Please read: >>> > >>> > * * * >>> > >>> > To members of the NuPIC community… >>> > >>> > I’m writing you today on a likely change in direction on NuPIC >>> > licensing going forward. I’ve discussed this direction with several >>> > members of the NuPIC community, and would value your input as well. >>> > You can reach me at [email protected] with any thoughts on this >>> > subject or on licensing in general. >>> > >>> > When we made the decision to use the GPLv3 license several years ago, >>> > the GPL seemed like a good fit for our needs as we were trying to >>> > promote a community that shares their work, rather than going with a >>> > more permissive style license that allows individuals to keep it >>> > private. As you know, we elected to have a dual license strategy to >>> > separately work with those individuals who wanted to build proprietary >>> > commercial applications. >>> > >>> > Now, several years later, we are seeing some concern on the question >>> > of how the GPLv3 applies to SaaS implementations (SaaS is “software as >>> > a service”, or cloud-based implementations). We have heard from SaaS >>> > developers who feel comfortable using the GPL but not distributing the >>> > source. As this was not the spirit of our original licensing >>> > selection, we are now leaning towards transitioning to the AGPLv3 >>> > (Affero General Public License) going forward. The AGPL makes clear >>> > that use in a SaaS implementation is also considered a distribution >>> > and thus must fully comply with the GPL. In the last few years, we’ve >>> > seen increasing adoption of the AGPL, used for products such as Mongo >>> > DB. Note that the AGPLv3 is explicitly designed to be the same as the >>> > GPLv3 with the additional of the SaaS clarification. >>> > >>> > Based on initial feedback, we are planning to move forward with this >>> > change in the coming weeks. I believe that this will impact the NuPIC >>> > community in a positive way by plugging the loophole that does not >>> > clearly require distribution in SaaS instances. From a commercial >>> > perspective, this change gives a clearer delineation that a commercial >>> > license would be required for a proprietary SaaS implementation. >>> > >>> > Links to both licenses are below. >>> > >>> > Thanks for your interest and your investment of time in NuPIC. >>> > >>> > Donna >>> > >>> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html >>> > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html >>> > >>> > * * * >>> > >>> > >>> > Thanks for reading. I hope this doesn't alarm anyone. We've been >>> > discussing this change for awhile now, and I think it is the right >>> > thing to do. It Please let us know if you have any feedback, but the >>> > bottom line is that this change should not affect you at all unless >>> > you were planning on (or are currently) running NuPIC as a cloud-based >>> > software service. You may still do this, of course, but you would need >>> > to share your source code or come to Numenta for a commercial license. >>> > >>> > I am happy to discuss any concerns, questions, or comments anyone has >>> > about this change. >>> > >>> > Regards, >>> > >>> > --------- >>> > Matt Taylor >>> > OS Community Flag-Bearer >>> > Numenta >>> >> >>
