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Use the GPL Affero License?

 
Andrew
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#1 | Posted: 18 Apr 2010 00:57
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Wouldn't it be better to use the GNU Affero GPL as the license instead of the vanilla GPL? The Affero GPL is exactly the same but adds one requirement: if you run the program on a server and let other users communicate with it there, your server must also allow them to download the source code corresponding to the program that it's running.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html
eddie
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#2 | Posted: 19 Apr 2010 01:14
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Hi, you're right that GPL does not really make sense in web projects (~ does not fulfil its original purpose). But I'm OK with that because GPL is less restrictive than AGPL which is what I like.

If I could choose I'd probably license it under BSD style license but I must keep GPL because it's still derivative work (e.g. tables plugin is almost identical to original WiKiss plugin).
 
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