On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:20:45PM +0100, Simon Ley wrote: > I have begun writing a MMOG in Java which I would now like to host as > a project on savannah.nongnu.org. To me, the GNU AGPL seems to be my > licence of choice, but I am unsure about the following: > > 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?
I don't think that the AGPL puts any additional requirements on a client. See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq#AGPLv3ServerAsUser -- AKFoerster <http://AKFoerster.de/>
