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Re: packages under the AGPL-3 license



Stefano Zacchiroli <zack@debian.org> writes:
> On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 02:25:49PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> Actually, based on the surveys I've done of licensing information, I
>> think it's unlikely that the AGPL will ever become that popular of a
>> license.  I doubt it will even pass the GFDL, which we probably should
>> not have accepted into common-licenses.

> Thanks for this prompt feedback.

> ... and gosh, I didn't imagine AGPL share was so low in the Debian
> archive. (Countering bad gut feelings is what data are useful for!)

Yes, indeed.  :)  I supported adding the GFDL 1.3 to common-licenses on
the basis of a similar gut feeling, and it's still sitting there at only
79 packages.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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