[Mageia-discuss] Introducing mageia-app-db

Mon Nov 8 14:44:23 CET 2010

+Le vendredi 5 novembre 2010 12:08:57, Michael Scherer a écrit :
+> 
+> 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 :/ ). 
+> 
+> 
+
+I'll take a look. AGPL seems a suitable license at first sight.
+
+Regards
+
+Samuel Verschelde
+
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