Flathub licensing

[Joaquim Rocha]

Now that we're laying the groundwork for Flathub, we should decide which
license we're using for it before we start coding.

Being a web project, my natural inclination would be to propose that we use
AGPL [1] for it. However, people have expressed some concerns to me in the
past about this license. E.g. I had a group management project many years
ago that was licensed as AGPL v3. Since this project was particularly
useful for companies, I received quite a number of emails from people
saying that they wished to use it (or parts of it) but, even if they wanted
to contribute important changes back, they were afraid of being sued over
any tiny/unimportant changes they might end up doing.

I believe Flathub, particularly the build management part, can be very
attractive to companies as well, and I'd love them to use it and contribute
to it in a fair way. So let's try to find out what license makes the most
sense for this project with a healthy discussion.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html

Cheers,

Joaquim Rocha
http://www.joaquimrocha.com
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