On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 10:06:25PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > I can't see how someone can claim that AGPL is a free software > license. [...]
I was recently reviewing some new software (a FUSE backend) for an acquaintance who wanted to release it under AGPL3. I did mention to him the BSD-advertising-clause-like issues with the Affero provisions in the license, including the additional burdens it places on derivers of the software who may not reuse pieces of it in the way he envisioned. More concerning, however, his software also links against libmysqlclient which (starting with 4.0 at least) is GPL2-only with a slew of linking exceptions for other licenses including (very recently) GPL3, but none for AGPL3. My IANAL opinion is that this would make binary distribution of the program outright impossible... -- { IRL(Jeremy_Stanley); WWW(http://fungi.yuggoth.org/); PGP(43495829); WHOIS(STANL3-ARIN); SMTP(fu...@yuggoth.org); FINGER(fu...@yuggoth.org); MUD(kin...@katarsis.mudpy.org:6669); IRC(fu...@irc.yuggoth.org#ccl); ICQ(114362511); YAHOO(crawlingchaoslabs); AIM(dreadazathoth); } -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110728014346.gb1...@yuggoth.org