Hi Simon,
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Simon Ley <simon7...@googlemail.com> wrote: > If I put both client and server under it, wouldn't that mean that each > client instance would have to offer its source code to the server if > requested? I don't think it is appealing to the players if they are > obliged to upload the whole client source data they are using, > including images and sound. On the other hand, if I put the client > under the GPL and the server under the AGPL, I would have to create > two projects since I can only choose one licence per project. What > should I do? As a non-lawyer, I'm under the impression that the license covers 'code' - any images/sound the players create are not code, and do not fall under the AGPL. I am not a lawyer, so if you have doubts, it might be best to contact licens...@gnu.org. On a personal note, if I wrote a MMOG, and users improved their client software to communicate with my servers software, I'd be curious about the code modifications. The AGPL would appear a perfect match. > Furthermore, I have read about the Java trap and IcedTea. I develop > and test my code with eclipse under Ubuntu 12.04.1, using > java-6-openjdk-i386 as VM, and have installed the packages > openjdk-6-jdk and openjdk-6-jre from the default Ubuntu repositories. > The package description says "The packages are built using the IcedTea > build support and patches from the IcedTea project". Can I be sure > that my code fulfils the free software requirements? OpenJDK, IcedTea, and Eclipse are free software, so these aren't a problem. If you want to be 100% sure that your code runs on free software, try developing, compiling and running it on a 100% free distribution, such as Trisquel GNU/Linux (similar to Ubuntu). If all the packages you need are in Trisquel's repositories, then you have no non-free dependencies (just check the license on any additional Java libraries you need to byte-compile or run). Cheers, Jan
