<div dir="ltr">What benefit does AGPL, or even GPL, provide over MIT/BSD in our use cases?<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 8:17 AM, Joaquim Rocha <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:joaquimrocha1@gmail.com" target="_blank">joaquimrocha1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Now that we're laying the groundwork for Flathub, we should decide which license we're using for it before we start coding.<br><br></div>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.<br></div><div></div><div><br></div>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.<br><div><div><div><div><br>[1] <a href="https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.en.html" target="_blank">https://www.gnu.org/licenses/<wbr>agpl-3.0.en.html</a><br><br></div><div>Cheers,<br></div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div class="m_4427081820625335072gmail_signature"><div>Joaquim Rocha</div><a href="http://www.joaquimrocha.com" target="_blank">http://www.joaquimrocha.com</a></div></div>
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