Re: (A)GPL 3

On 2011-08-12, Jonathan Schmidt-Dominé <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sune Vuorela wrote:
>
>> The copyright holders have decided so.
> Any _specific_ reason?
>
>> 
>> And it is going to be great to add AGPL software to interact with a 
> imap
>> server. Then you have to use the same method as 'notification' about 
> the
>> AGPL as you use to tell the user he is over quota. At each mail 
> request
>> \o/
> Nonsense, do you have to see the GPL message at every program start up?

Quote is from agpl #13.
| Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the
| Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users
| interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version
| supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding
| Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source
| from a network server at no charge....


>> Please, pretty please, keep the agpl out of anything that is not
>> strictly for webservices, and preferably  also out of webservices.
> Could you explain your reasons?

It makes code reuse of webservice code for non-webservice code hard.


/Sune