> Calling a service with either GPL or AGPL code will _not_ affect the license of the caller so what's AGPL all about?
e.g. do places that use MongoDB (MongoHQ and SourceForge come to mind) have to acquire a commercial license? On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Wenig, Stefan <[email protected]>wrote: > You could craft your own license, but a license that forbids commercial > usage is not a FOSS license by either FSF or OSI standards. you do that and > call your software OSS, you better avoid certain people afterwards ;-) > > ________________________________________ > From: [email protected] [ > [email protected]] on behalf of Frans Bouma [ > [email protected]] > Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2010 20:28 > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [nhibernate-development] LGPL v3 for NH3 (?) > > > > The AGPL is also the preferred license for dual licensing (we do > > that). > > > > > > any license is suitable for that, you own the code, you > decide > > how > > to license it. You can distribute it under 10 licenses, it's your > > work, you > > decide. > > > > > > Actually no. > > Consider RavenDB as a good example. AGPL pretty much says that if you are > > building commercial apps, you are going to pay for the license. > > Nothing else would do that. > > Of course it would, any piece of text you use as a license for > distribution and usage of the sourcecode for others which states the user > can only create non-commercial applications with the sourcecode and always > has to disclose full sourcecode will do (actually, the non-commercial > remark > is enough). Remember, you own the code and you decide. Without a license, > another person isn't even legally able to download the sourcecode. > > Anyway, I was talking about dual licensing conflicts. Some people > believe the dual licensing can only happen if both licenses are compatible, > as otherwise contributing is problematic. But for code owners, that is of > course a non-issue. > > FB > -- Ken Egozi. http://www.kenegozi.com/blog http://www.delver.com http://www.musicglue.com http://www.castleproject.org http://www.idcc.co.il - הכנס הקהילתי הראשון למפתחי דוטנט - בואו בהמוניכם
