On 4/30/13 5:15 PM, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: > Meanwhile, the FUD we hear against Affero GPL is almost exactly the same > as the GPL FUD that I heard when I first got started in Free Software in > the early 1990s, right on through to the "unAmerican cancerous virus" > campaign in 2001. The GPL was successful, and accepted as a norm, > almost completely because there were codebases (GCC, Linux, etc.) that > were *so* useful that copyleft haters chose to live with copyleft > requirements -- whatever they might be -- rather than write new code > from scratch. > > I've told cwebber many times that such codebases just don't exist yet > for Affero GPL, and that's the root of all the so-called "I don't > understand how to comply with Affero GPL" problems. I hope GNU
While I strongly believe in free software, I don't think it is entirely FUD. Especially in the context of Freedom Box I think the AGPL may have interesting consequences. Or none (see last issue of International Free and Open Source Source Law Review). Regards, Walter _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
