Bug#634607: Add Affero GPL license to /usr/share/common-licenses

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Jonathan,

On Di 27 Dez 2011 18:19:34 CET Jonathan Yu wrote:

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 10:05 AM, Mike Gabriel <
mike.gabr...@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:

However, I would love Debian to give a signal on A-GPL as for many

server-side projects (CMS, Groupware, etc.) A-GPL from my perspective
definitely is the license to be preferred. However, this is mostly opinion
and surely people can see that differently.

What sort of signal are you looking for?

I know many project examples here in Germany that use Free Software for commercial service providing projects (like a customized CMS portal that was derived from a Free Software project, or SaaS and the SaaS service is shipped via a free software project, etc.pp.). In most cases the componanies offering such services fully comply to the free software license (mostly GPLvX). With A-GPL service providers would have to present a download link for their customized software in use. A download link for the modified sources of the original Free Software project. A-GPL is an attempt to create a flow-back from commercial use cases back to the upstream projects. I would love Debian to support this by setting a little signal which could be adding the license to common-licenses.

We had the same request/issue with the Artistic License version 2.0 some
months (years?) ago. Lots of new software (Perl 6 stuff specifically) uses
it, and adoption is on the rise due to the clearer wording. It was
clarified because of speculation that Artistic License 1.0 is not
enforceable. Anyway, AL2 falls below the given threshold as well.

:-(

However, that is not to say that Debian main does not have plenty of AL2
packages. Just less than 1000 :-)

:-)

I would personally argue that not much disk space is used from inclusion to
common-licenses (and that the used space is quickly recovered due to
reduced duplication), though those wiser than me have reminded me that
there are people who use Debian on platforms other than PCs that have
essentially unlimited amounts of storage capacity, such as mobile devices
in particular.

Greets,
Mike



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Especially for the mobile market, A-GPL becomes of more and more interest, as more and more software is transferred into the cloud and away from the mobile device itself. This does give more disk space to the devices, I know, I just want to draw a context line here...

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