Flathub licensing

Christian Hergert christian at hergert.me
Thu Oct 27 19:21:05 UTC 2016


On 10/27/2016 08:56 AM, Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
> What benefit does AGPL, or even GPL, provide over MIT/BSD in our use cases?

If someone were to create a commercial competitor to flathub using the 
flathub code it would ensure they are on equal footing.

Both BSD and MIT X11 licenses lack patent provisions to ensure that 
consumers of the software are guaranteed rights to use the software.

-- Christian



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