Re: Bug#639916: spread: license wackiness
On Mon, 05 Sep 2011 at 07:32:33 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Ken Arromdee:
> > Unlike the original BSD 4 clause license this adds "or software that uses
> > this software".
>
> Is it really that much different in effect from the Affero GPL? It
> may be a bit more far-reaching, but compliance is so much easier.
The AGPL requires you to provide (an opportunity to download) Corresponding
Source in the webapp itself, but this license "contaminates" web pages that
merely *refer to* the webapp; I think that's considerably more onerous.
(If Spread-based webapps had to display the specified text "This product...
For more info..." in the webapp itself, you're right that that would be less
onerous than the AGPL, but that's not what the license says.)
S
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