that is an easy fix, as it only impacts the full name and not the short identifiers (which is AGPL-#.0) - thanks Camille for noticing and David and Bradley for the recollections.
I will log this for the next version of the SPDX License List. We actually don't have AGPL version 2 on the SPDX License List - I think this might be because it does not really seem to be a separate license in and of itself ?? thoughts? Jilayne Lovejoy SPDX Legal Team lead lovejoyl...@gmail.com On Oct 1, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Bradley M. Kuhn <bk...@ebb.org> wrote: > Wheeler, David A wrote: >> I believe you mean that version 1.0 doesn’t begin with “GNU”. That >> sounds correct; > > I agree, but the details, to my recollection, are different than explained by > David below: > >> I believe Affero had an idea, drafted it (with some help from GNU), and >> then put it out… but as their own license. Later it got folded in as a >> GNU license. Anyway, that’s the history as I (poorly?) remember it. > > Granted, the below is based on my own personal recollection of events, > backed up by my personal email archives. > > I've told the story of the creation of the AGPLv1 a few times: > > http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/presentations/affero-gplv3-why-it-exists-who-its > (slides at: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/talks/SCALE-2013/agplv3.html ) > > This story is told in the Wikipedia entry as well: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License#History > > (but, full disclosure: I've made edits to that Wikipedia entry myself.) > > Anyway, to answer the main question at hand: AGPLv1 was a derivative of > the GPLv2 published by Affero, Inc. (now defunct) with the permission of Free > Software Foundation. See: http://www.gnu.org/press/2002-03-19-Affero.html > > Thus, I suggest its full name is accurately: "Affero General Public License, > version 1". > > AGPLv2 was also published by the defunct Affero, Inc.: > http://www.affero.org/agpl2.html to make it possible for AGPLv1 works to > transition to the AGPLv3. AGPLv2's full name is thus "Affero General Public > License, version 2". > > In other words, you should therefore not use the "GNU" moniker in the full > names of AGPLv1 and AGPLv2, but *should* use it in the name of AGPLv3, found > at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html > > -- bkuhn > _______________________________________________ > Spdx-legal mailing list > Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org > https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
