On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 03:50:03PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > There is just one caveat: you must make sure to never, ever, distribute that > piece of software, because once you do, you permanently lose your right to > use it without obnoxious and potentially crippling restrictions.
Not right. You have to allow _access_ to it via a computer network. > That's section 9 of AGPL v3. Please read section 9 of GPL v3, it is identical. > Per section 13, any derived software that "supports remote interaction > through a computer network" must present a prominent offer to every user, > no matter if that's feasible or possible. You miss a vital part of this sentence: "(if your version supports such interaction)". Please quote complete sentences if you try to proof something. > The official FTPmaster response came in #495721, and it doesn't even > mention this issue, only three minor points (cost of running a webserver > with sources, private use, contaminating reverse dependencies). GPL also contaminates its reverse dependencies. So what? Okay, in this case you actually have to do something for it. > Thus, could someone please explain, are there any arguments that > forbidding reuse with any protocols that don't support sending bulk > ancillary text would be free? Okay, you did not read it. Bastian -- The heart is not a logical organ. -- Dr. Janet Wallace, "The Deadly Years", stardate 3479.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130710150320.gb8...@mail.waldi.eu.org