Re: GPL2 + required to have the place to get the recent version

2019-11-13 Thread Daniel Hakimi
I mean, that's not entirely relevant in the context of this discussion. That file tells users not to use the software if they don't agree to the license, but section 9 of both the GPL and AGPL 3.0 say that a license is not required to receive and run a copy of the program, and copyright does not li

Re: GPL2 + required to have the place to get the recent version

2019-11-13 Thread Francesco Poli
On Wed, 13 Nov 2019 08:00:04 -0500 Daniel Hakimi wrote: > But even the AGPL does not restrict *use*. [...] I personally think the GNU AfferoGPL v3 *does* restrict use. That's one of the main [reasons] why I think the AfferoGPL does *not* meet the DFSG. The Debian FTP Masters don't agree with me,

Re: GPL2 + required to have the place to get the recent version

2019-11-13 Thread Daniel Hakimi
But even the AGPL does not restrict *use*. The text seems generally uninformed to me, and I wouldn't assume much of anything, especially not when I could communicate with the people who wrote it instead. On Wed, Nov 13, 2019, 06:20 Giovanni Mascellani wrote: > Il 13/11/19 01:03, Daniel Hakimi ha

Re: GPL2 + required to have the place to get the recent version

2019-11-13 Thread Giovanni Mascellani
Il 13/11/19 01:03, Daniel Hakimi ha scritto: > But the text is informal and the party seems to not really understand > the license to begin with (again, he's talking about "use," that's not > really even relevant to copyright law), so he might not really mean > anything by it. I would not assume il