Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-04 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Ondřej Surý wrote at 00:36 (EDT): > (d) Is it ok to switch 106 source packages and their reverse depends > to AGPLv3? I think that might be stated a bit more clearly: you won't be changing the license of the upstream works; you'd be changing the license of the dowstream whole as it appears in Debi

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-04 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
decision for Debian for many reasons, including this one: >> – beside generating problems for GPL2-only dependees on libapt of >> course) I'm curious, are there many of these? > On 03/07/13 16:34, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote: [...] >>> I know that some have complained that comp

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-04 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Stefano Zacchiroli wrote at 03:14 (EDT): > So, I wonder, do we have any idea (due to them having already been > mentioned publicly elsewhere) about the craziest interpretation of > AGPL that the "evil guys" might come up with and, at the other end of > the spectrum, the most restrictive one? > AFA

Re: Berkeley DB 6.0 license change to AGPLv3

2013-07-03 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Many people off-list have been asking me to comment on this discussion, because (like Richard Fontana) I'm a co-author of AGPLv3, and I also (back in the early 2000's) invented the original licensing idea behind the AGPLv1. I thus care deeply about the license and believe it's an important policy