2008/9/2 MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Would a licence that required me to give a copy of the source at my > expense if I let someone use the application on my laptop meet the > DFSG?"
Why is this a question that matters for the AGPL? Are you saying that the condition of distributing source over a network could be prohibitively expensive? Pleae correct me if I'm strawmanning you, but this is ridiculous. It's an even bigger burden to have to send people copies of CDs or to download the source from all the GPLed software out there, and I don't think all this distribution of source has brought any project to its knees. Sure, if your site is slashdotted with source requests, that's a problem, but this could happen just as well with the GPL as it it could with the AGPL. You don't have to give source to every user of your software, only to those who ask. I don't understand why embedded systems have anything to do with it. You just have to put the code up somewhere on some network server if you are distributing your application's interface over a network. The server hosting the code doesn't even have to be your own, just put it on Sourceforge or one of the zillions code hosting servers out there. I don't see a conflict with the dissident test either; if the dissident can setup a network server to offer a network interface to her users, she can also anonymously upload the source to Sourceforge (or whatever). - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
