Hi, On Tue, Jul 09, 2013 at 10:37:32AM +0200, Dominique Chabord wrote: > I remember when OpenERP changed to AGPL, I was in favor of this > change. Now that we have the experience of the locked-in Saas from > OpenERP, I can say AGPL doesn't protect users, and just mis-leads > people who think they are protected. I no longer think it was a good > idea.
I don't watch OpenERP, but my understanding of the AGPL is that it is like the GPL plus a clause that if you offer software licensed this way to users and modify that, you have to feed your modifications back to the original copyright holder, whereas with plain GPL, you have to feed back such changes only when you distribute the software, not when you use the modified software to provide a service. Otherwise, there should be no difference between the AGPL(v3) and the GPLv3. If something else happened, that would be interesting to investigate. Kind regards, --Toni++
