Re: (A)GPL 3

On Dimecres 10 Agost 2011 15:16:02 Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 07, 2011 at 05:33:49PM +0200, Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé wrote:
> > Today we seem to live in a cloudy world, thus there are new risks
> > regarding licensing which could make traditional copyleft totally
> > useless, that for there is the AGPL, couldn't it be officially allowed
> > in the licensing policies? When we want to have copyleft, we should be
> > able to protect the software using such a license, too. It is already
> > used inofficially by ownCloud, where the risk is obvious. It is
> > possible to use GPL code in AGPL programs.
> 
> This has been on my TODO since OwnCloud came along, we should probably
> add a clause to the licence policy saying AGPL is allowed for web
> services.  However I've not read the AGPL and I'm not too familiar
> with the arguments for and against it (e.g. I hear Debian isn't a big
> fan), nor do I understand how it can mix with GPL. 

AGPL1 can not be mixed with GPL2
AGPL3 can be mixed with GPL3.

Albert