On Apr 6, 2009, at 3:47 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> Luke Kanies <l...@madstop.com> writes:
>
>> 2) Stick to a viral/reciprocal license (probably AGPLv3) but require
>> Sun-style copyright contribution (which provides the project a non-
>> exclusive license to the copyright). This provides a single
>> organization with a license for all copyright, and allows that
>> license
>> holder (Reductive Labs) to protect against license infringement,
>> provide
>> patent indemnity (which I've already been asked about by others but
>> cannot currently offer), relicense Puppet (and produce commercial
>> software that integrates with that relicensed product), and probably
>> more.
>
> AGPL is a little controversial, to warn. So far, I think it's
> likely that
> organizations such as Debian will continue to consider it sufficiently
> free, but it's a bit odd in its requirements and depending on how one
> reads it, some people think that it's onerous for a developer who
> wanted
> to make private modifications.
>
> I'm not sure it's a big enough problem to warrant not using it, but
> it's
> something to be aware of. It makes people more nervous than the GPL
> does.
I'll keep that in mind. I don't know license specifics; I was
planning on leaving that up to the lawyerly discussions, given a
general plan.
--
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
--G. K. Chesterton
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