Wheeler, David A wrote: > I believe you mean that version 1.0 doesn’t begin with “GNU”. That > sounds correct;
I agree, but the details, to my recollection, are different than explained by David below: > I believe Affero had an idea, drafted it (with some help from GNU), and > then put it out… but as their own license. Later it got folded in as a > GNU license. Anyway, that’s the history as I (poorly?) remember it. Granted, the below is based on my own personal recollection of events, backed up by my personal email archives. I've told the story of the creation of the AGPLv1 a few times: http://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale11x/presentations/affero-gplv3-why-it-exists-who-its (slides at: http://ebb.org/bkuhn/talks/SCALE-2013/agplv3.html ) This story is told in the Wikipedia entry as well: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License#History (but, full disclosure: I've made edits to that Wikipedia entry myself.) Anyway, to answer the main question at hand: AGPLv1 was a derivative of the GPLv2 published by Affero, Inc. (now defunct) with the permission of Free Software Foundation. See: http://www.gnu.org/press/2002-03-19-Affero.html Thus, I suggest its full name is accurately: "Affero General Public License, version 1". AGPLv2 was also published by the defunct Affero, Inc.: http://www.affero.org/agpl2.html to make it possible for AGPLv1 works to transition to the AGPLv3. AGPLv2's full name is thus "Affero General Public License, version 2". In other words, you should therefore not use the "GNU" moniker in the full names of AGPLv1 and AGPLv2, but *should* use it in the name of AGPLv3, found at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.html -- bkuhn _______________________________________________ Spdx-legal mailing list Spdx-legal@lists.spdx.org https://lists.spdx.org/mailman/listinfo/spdx-legal
