Re: [A]GPL vs Apache 2

2015-11-03 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
On Tue, 2015-11-03 at 15:34 +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 4:16 AM, Riley Baird wrote: > > > Not necessarily. It could mean that you want to be as compatible > with > > as many open-source licenses as possible. > > The Apache licenses don't fit that definition of "permissive" bu

Re: [A]GPL vs Apache 2

2015-11-03 Thread Francesco Poli
On Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:35:43 +0530 Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: [...] > Honestly, I can't see a reason why AGPL would > be bad, in the spirit of Free Software. [...] Personally, I see reasons why the GNU AfferoGPL v3 is bad: see my own analysis [1]. Please note that the FTP Masters disagree with me

The future of copyleft (was: [A]GPL vs Apache 2)

2015-11-03 Thread Ben Finney
Ritesh Raj Sarraf writes: > I think the world is changing now. 15 years ago, when I started, GPL > was the license. Then, Free Software itself was young and not very > successful commercially. > […] > Even HP, in the LWN article, mentions that. Getting a project to be > commercially viable, mand