Flathub licensing

[Jasper St. Pierre]

What benefit does AGPL, or even GPL, provide over MIT/BSD in our use cases?

On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Joaquim Rocha <joaquimrocha1 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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  Jasper
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