You should be aware that Debain - as do Fedora and Suse - provide source
packages for the binary packages they offer. So, the distributions
already fulfill the requrements of the AGPL.
You should also be aware that you would need to provide the sources only
if you were to *distribute binary packages* of owncloud. This, however,
I believe is not your intention. You merely want to offer the use of the
software; not the software itself.
BTW, you can legally send e-mails without having to provide the source
code of GPLed software such as Postfix, Exim or G-d forbid, sendmail. :-)
I hope, this clarification helps.
It is always a good idea to take a step back and to re-evaluate
suppositions we have gotten used to.
Yours,
Erwin (who is not a lawyer)
On 07/05/2013 12:02 PM, Lars Meyser wrote:
Hi,
I'm considering to install owncloud on my Debian server and I would
prefer to use the owncloud package because it eases the maintenance
burden for me, but I am wondering how I can comply with the AGPLv3 in
that case. Debian (as other distros) modifies the source with several
patches and from my reading of the AGPL that requires me to
"prominently" offer my users a way to retrieve exactly this modified
source code. The Debian package does nothing like that, so I suppose
I would have to create my own app or theme in order to include links
to the sources listed on
http://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/owncloud? This seems
very tedious and probably neutralizes any benefit of using distro
packages instead of the unmodified upstream version of owncloud. This
does not only concern Debian, I found that the Fedora and SUSE
packages contain modifications as well. Is it actually possible to
use distro packages of owncloud on a publically accessible server
without violating the AGPL?
Lars
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