On 09/07/13 11:11 +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > 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,
This is wrong. With AGPL you should also provide the source code of the running software also to users using it throught the network. There is no obligation to push back to original author. > 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. Idem for GPL, no push back. -- Cédric Krier B2CK SPRL Rue de Rotterdam, 4 4000 Liège Belgium Tel: +32 472 54 46 59 Email/Jabber: [email protected] Website: http://www.b2ck.com/
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