On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:45:25PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > Again, this is not the language that the AGPL uses. It requires that > "your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with > it remotely through a computer network" the source. Notice the text > "your modified version". It's not acceptable to offer it out-of-band. > Also, it says "all users". That means anyone who calls connect(2), > whether they can authenticate or not. POP can't do that. Neither can > DNS. Those protocols almost never have any indication to the user that > they are working. Most users don't even know that they're there. > > This doesn't even mention the situation for HTTP, where it could be > interpreted to mean that every response requires a modification of the > data in some way so that the user can be offered the source, since the > header is not displayed to the user, let alone "prominently".
Stupid question: with this wording of the AGPL, who, in his right mind, will be licensing a DNS or POP server under this license ? (Except maybe someone who didn't read it) Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
