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Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users



----- Original Message -----

> From: Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 11:48 AM
> Subject: Re: AGPLv3 Compliance and Debian Users
> 
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 5:41 PM, Lars Meyser wrote:
> 
>>  It is not that simple, Debian itself complies with the license and users
>>  installing the package comply with the license as long as the 
> network-facing
>>  service is not accessible to other users. To stay with my example, I am in
>>  compliance with the AGPLv3 when I install and use the Debian owncloud 
> package
>>  on my NAS but not when I install it on my publicly accessible webserver 
> where
>>  other users interact with it.
> 
> In both situations you are still in compliance with the license.
> 
>>  This is also my personal reading of the license, I would like to hear 
> others
>>  opinions before I start filing bugs.
> 
> Perhaps you missed "if you modify the Program" in item "13. 
> Remote
> Network Interaction;" of the AGPL?

No I did not miss that, but I'm not entirely sure of the implications. So if I
use a packaged version of a program which has been modified (e.g. by Debian
patches) I am not obliged to make the source available?

Lars


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