On Thu, Jul 11, 2013 at 12:19:47PM -0700, Howard Chu wrote: > >Right, I want to understand AGPL's motivations is all. > > I used to put similar terms on my code, back before the GPL existed. > Essentially: If you modify this code, you must send your > modifications back to me (the original author). The motivation is > that if you fixed a bug or improved the code, you should make your > improvements available to me, and I subsequently make them available > to the user base at large in my next release. > > I don't consider this a terrible restriction - if you're using my Sure, but that doesn't make it DFSG free (hint: it's likely not)[1][2] [1]: The Dissident test [2]: The Desert Island test -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> : :' : Proud Debian Developer `. `'` 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag
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