Ummm, anyone want to address my question? On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 07:39 +0000, Ryan wrote: > I'm not sure this is the place to be asking this, so please redirect me > if necessary. > > I'm working on a payment-routing server (http://ripple.sf.net/), and I'd > like to release it under a license that obliges those who build services > on it to also release the source for those services. Applications built > on top of would essentially be accounting systems that interact with the > server over a socket (likely using HTTP), but that interaction is quite > complex, requiring several different types of callbacks to the > accounting system. > > Would the Affero GPL work for me? Would an application on top of my > server be considered a "single system" with that server for the purposes > of the GPL? > > What if there was, or could theoretically be, another server like mine > that uses the same API, so the application could plug in a different > server? Is this important, or is the fact that someone *is* using my > server tightly integrated with their application the relevant fact? > > A similar example to consider might be if I was releasing a database > server under the AGPL. If someone used it in their web app, would they > be obliged to release their app source under the [A]GPL as well? Would > it matter if my db server or its interface was generic or > unique/specialized? > > Thanks, > Ryan >
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