[Mageia-discuss] Introducing mageia-app-db

Fri Nov 5 12:08:57 CET 2010

Le vendredi 05 novembre 2010 à 09:18 +0100, Samuel Verschelde a écrit :
+> Le vendredi 5 novembre 2010 02:35:12, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> > 
+> > May I suggest to take a look at the license AGPL v3 for the software
+> > ( and also the idea behind Franklin Street statement )
+> 
+> Why not (although I didn't understand the Franklin Street thing). Why this very license rather than another one ?
+
+The franklin street statement is just about free web service. 
+
+And the AGPL is different from the GPL in the sense that user of a
+network service are considered as user with AGPL, which mean they can
+ask for source code and modification of the network service, which is
+not the case of GPL.
+
+Ie, if I change a GPL software, let's say imp. The users of the web
+software are not required to get modification nor source, since this is
+not executed on their server. That's a loophole in the GPL.
+
+With AGPL v3, from what I understood, this is different, according to
+the section 13 http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html . Ie, if I
+change statusnet, people viewing the website must receive a offer to get
+the source code much like regular GPL for a regular non networked
+software.
+
+But do not blindly trust me, try to read various things about it before
+changing ( even if I found some FUD on the web about this :/ ). 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+
+