Quoth Andrew Gwozdziewycz: > I'm not sure why a pdf reader would need the benefits of the AGPL, > which to my knowledge, ensures that versions of the code that are > accessible over a network count as being "distributed" and thus > require the source code to be available. Seems like the GPL would be > just as good here.
Yes, I broadly agree. I'd guess the concern that led to the AGPL was the possibility of someone using the code to make say a web-based PDF reader. That was a vague concern of mine with a project I worked on a while ago, but nobody cared about the code enough to butcher it into a web application, thankfully :) Not that you'd be likely to want the code 'contributions' from somebody who likes doing "web programming" like that, of course...
