On 05/28/2010 12:09 PM, Melvin Carvalho wrote:
- I am assuming any GNU stuff is a safe match, though we did have some
discussion on GPL2 vs AGPL
GPL2 *or later* can be used under GPL 3. Which can be used under AGPL.
GPL2 *only* is incompatible.
- What about Apache 2.0 (OpenSocial)
GPL 3 compatible, so AGPL compatible.
- What about the OWF Specs: OAuth, OpenID, OStatus, Activity Streams,
Salmon, Pubsubhubub -- I know that the FSF is not generally a big fan of
the patents system. To what extent can a GNU project play nicely with
the listed technologes?
Good question -
http://oauth.net/license/core/1.0/
No patents are listed, and this is for the spec rather than for a code
licence.
Matt can one of the hundred or so lawyers employed by the FSF take a
look at this in some of their copious spare time?
PS as a side the lorea.cc folks are doing some great work creating a
federated version of elgg (using many of the technologies above), and I
am helping them to test. There should be a working demo later in the
year ... if it's considered useful, I think we'd be open to donating
code the code to the GNU Social Project
Cool!
- Rob.
