Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?
Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
> Miriam Ruiz writes ("Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?"):
> > Do you think AGPLv3 is DFSG-free?
>
> Yes. The source-transmission requirement is hardly onerous, and there
> is an important class of sitations where that extra restriction is
> very important to stop someone making the code effectively
> proprietary.
The source-transmission requirement is hardly onerous if it has
loopholes (like hosting on third-party cost-free VCSes, perhaps), but
it's not yet clear exactly what those are. What does "effectively
proprietary" mean and why would it allow requiring distribution costs?
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