Re: [License-discuss] You need to pay to access AGPL3 scripts?

2014-06-11 Thread David Woolley
On 10/06/14 22:26, Kuno Woudt wrote: I assume FullContentRSS has the copyright on their own software, and can license it as they want. Including selling it to you under AGPLv3, while not offering a download themselves for their users. I find it difficult to work out why someone would use the

Re: [License-discuss] You need to pay to access AGPL3 scripts?

2014-06-11 Thread Ben Tilly
The downside of the GPL for networked programs is that someone can receive the program, modify it to strip references to you out of the output, improve it, and then host a competitor. There is no legal issue as long as they don't redistribute. The AGPL is supposed to avoid this issue. Because

Re: [License-discuss] You need to pay to access AGPL3 scripts?

2014-06-11 Thread David Woolley
On 11/06/14 22:24, Ben Tilly wrote: The AGPL is supposed to avoid this issue. Because now they have to acknowledge you, adn let you see their improvements. Not really about freedom then. They lose the freedom to hide their upgrades, but you don't. The tactic may be within the rules, but it

Re: [License-discuss] You need to pay to access AGPL3 scripts?

2014-06-10 Thread Patrice-Emmanuel Schmitz
Free / open source software like freedom, not like free beer :-) No FOSS license prohibits making some money out of all the work done... P-E 2014-06-10 7:51 GMT+02:00 ChanMaxthon xcvi...@me.com: I believe it is perfectly fine. RMS himself even *encourage* that. Sent from my iPhone On Jun

Re: [License-discuss] You need to pay to access AGPL3 scripts?

2014-06-10 Thread jonathon
On 6/9/2014 10:11 PM, ldr ldr wrote: Yes, FullContentRSS is an AGPL3 script, you can use and/or modify the script as you want. However you can get the script for $20. Is that congruent with the AGPL3 license? Yes. The primary reason most FLOSS is distributed gratis, is because FLOSS

Re: [License-discuss] You need to pay to access AGPL3 scripts?

2014-06-10 Thread David Woolley
On 10/06/14 06:51, ChanMaxthon wrote: I believe it is perfectly fine. RMS himself even *encourage* that. I think people are missing the point here. Assuming the requestor has used the service, this is a clear violation of clause 13 of the AGPL, and, if allowed would make the AGPL

Re: [License-discuss] You need to pay to access AGPL3 scripts?

2014-06-10 Thread Kuno Woudt
Hi, On 10-06-14 16:10, David Woolley wrote: On 10/06/14 06:51, ChanMaxthon wrote: I believe it is perfectly fine. RMS himself even *encourage* that. I think people are missing the point here. Assuming the requestor has used the service, this is a clear violation of clause 13 of the AGPL,

[License-discuss] You need to pay to access AGPL3 scripts?

2014-06-09 Thread ldr ldr
Here is an excerpt from the response I received: Yes, FullContentRSS is an AGPL3 script, you can use and/or modify the script as you want. However you can get the script for $20. Is that congruent with the AGPL3 license? ___ License-discuss mailing

Re: [License-discuss] You need to pay to access AGPL3 scripts?

2014-06-09 Thread ChanMaxthon
I believe it is perfectly fine. RMS himself even *encourage* that. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 10, 2014, at 13:11, ldr ldr stackoverflowuse...@gmail.com wrote: Here is an excerpt from the response I received: Yes, FullContentRSS is an AGPL3 script, you can use and/or modify the script as