Quoting Gervase Markham ([email protected]): > That page says: > > "OBM is an Free and Open Source messaging and collaboration software, > distributed under the GNU Affero GPL v3 License terms, with Additional > Terms pursuant to Section 7 of said license." > > Which is good, because nothing other than Section 7 allows them to add > additional terms of any sort to the license (see section 10). > > Section 7 says: > > "When you convey a copy of a covered work, you may at your option remove > any additional permissions from that copy, or from any part of it." > > So if you are concerned about the OSD-compliance of the additional > terms, you can simply remove them when you redistribute it. Problem solved.
Would that it were so. Lingora characterise their additions near the top as 'Additional Terms pursuant to Section 7 of said license', and clearly intend this to refer _not_ to additional permissions, but rather to this bit slightly further on, in 7b): Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, for material you add to a covered work, you may (if authorized by the copyright holders of that material) supplement the terms of this License with terms: [...] b) Requiring preservation of specified reasonable legal notices or author attributions in that material or in the Appropriate Legal Notices displayed by works containing it; > You do need to obey section 5 about Appropriate Legal Notices. However, > Section 0 of the AGPL defines what can be considered an Appropriate > Legal Notice; anything which Linagora attempts to define as such which > does not meet that definition can be said not to be an Appropriate Legal > Notice. Indeed. This is why I called it an abuse of the intent of section 7. Were I hauled into court on copyright infringement for failure to comply with the badgeware requirement, that is what I would argue, but like other SaaS firms pulling this trick with GPLv3 and AGPLv3's 'Additional Terms' clauses, they are trying to have their way through assertion rather than adjudication. -- Cheers, "To me, it's a good idea to always carry two sacks of Rick Moen something, when you walk around. That way, if anybody [email protected] says 'Hey, can you give me a hand?', you can say 'Sorry, McQ! (4x80) got these sacks.'" -- Deep Thoughts by Jack Handy _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
