Re: Is AGPLv3 DFSG-free?

[Ken Arromdee <arromdee@rahul.net>]

On Tue, 2 Sep 2008, Gervase Markham wrote:
> If it's a small embedded system, the source code is likely also to be
> small. Or is this a combination of the "small embedded system" objection
> and the "gigabytes of modified source" objection?

This problem could actually arise for the GPL too.  Consider a work which
contains a video file encoded in some kind of lossy format like divx.  The
source code for that video file could easily be a hundred times the size of
the file.