On Wed, Jul 10, 2013 at 6:28 PM, Dominique Chabord < [email protected]> wrote:
> AGPL is mis-understood since many think you cannot lock-in users in a > Saas based on AGPL, which in practice is not true. It is not just in practice, gnu.org itself says that GNU AGPL does not address saas [1] and the document clearly says no license can prevent that. Its just a misconception that AGPL prevents locked SaaS. >From the recent switching of Berkeley DB from GPL to AGPL (by Oracle) AGPL in practice seems like a license which could be used to trouble developers rather than anything else [2]. [1] http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html [2] http://developers.slashdot.org/story/13/07/05/1647215/oracle-quietly-switches-berkeleydb-to-agpl Disclaimer: IANAL Thanks & Regards -- Sharoon Thomas Openlabs Technologies & Consulting (P) Limited w: http://www.openlabs.co.in m: +1 813.793.6736 (OPEN) Extn. 200 t: @sharoonthomas - We CARE for our customers
