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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Luke Kanies | http://reductivelabs.com | http://madstop.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---