On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote: > 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)
There are lots of people who pick a license without close reading. Perhaps even a majority. But more importantly: good code in a webapp (where AGPL is "at home") might find its way into a different network service. The example earlier in the thread of a webapp growing an IMAP service is right. So this AGPL webapp has an IMAP service; such a good one indeed that I might want to reuse some of its code for a pure IMAP server. The "spirit" of the AGPL is clear, but the wording is horrible. I am not sure if a better wording is possible, perhaps its stated goals are hard to support within a reasonable FOSS license. m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
