On Monday, December 2, 2024 2:14:03 AM MST Marco M. F. De Santis wrote: > Il 26/11/24 19:10, Soren Stoutner ha scritto: > >> All files have for license version "either version 3 of the License, or > >> any later version accepted by Marco Maria Francesco De Santis, which > >> shall act as a proxy as defined in Section 14 of version 3 of the > >> license", so not being "at your option any later version" I think it's > >> better not to use AGPL-3+. > > > > When I have encountered these situations, I give the license name in debian/ > > copyright a custom extension to easily indicate to users that it isn’t the > > standard license. Something like AGPL-3~DeSantis, with a comment explaining > > how the license is different when it isn’t readily obvious. You can see an > > example of this at: > > > > https://salsa.debian.org/soren/feather-wallet/-/blob/main/debian/ copyright? > > ref_type=heads > > > > (See the comments on the GPL-2-or-3-only and ISC-old licenses, the > > GPL-2-or-3- only being the most similar to this case, where it isn’t > > strictly a GPL-2 and it isn’t strictly a GPL-2+.) > > Hello Soren, let me only point out that this actually is the standard > AGPLv3 license, the possibility to indicate a proxy for future releases > is explicitly stated in the license (as also in GPLv3 and LGPLv3). > > Looking for some examples of this situation in debian repository I've > found some kde libraries that use "KDE e.V." as a proxy for future > license releases, they use a short name like LGPL-3+KDEeV. The > difference for me is that the AGPL-3 is not included in default license > files shipped with debian, so I have to include all of its text in the > copyright file. But if I don't refer to it from any copyright stanza > then lintian correctly complains that there is an unused license. > > So I think the best solution is using as license synopsis "AGPL-3 or > AGPL-3+Desantis", then I can include the license text for AGPL-3 and the > "license grant" used in hoteldruid files for AGPL-3+Desantis.
That makes sense. -- Soren Stoutner so...@debian.org
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