[Koha] Liblime, Koha, BibLibre and FLOSS

[Kyle Hall]

I've been a proponent of the AGPL in the past. I suppose my question
is, would switching to the AGPL hurt the project in any way? Assuming
it fails to "ensure cooperation", wouldn't that just make it
equivalent to the GPLv3?

Kyle

http://www.kylehall.info
Information Technology
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )




On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Colin Campbell
<colin.campbell at ptfs-europe.com> wrote:
> On 10/23/2009 11:00 AM, MJ Ray wrote:
>> Colin Campbell wrote:
>
>> Please read the list archives.  I looked at it seriously during its
>> drafting and, personally, I feel that AGPL is a bogus licence, based
>> on the absurd idea that one can "ensure cooperation" with
>> contract-based compulsion when it has been well-known for over 70
>> years that true cooperation is voluntary.  See for example
>> http://www.ica.coop/coop/principles.html#1
>>
> I've read them first time and thought your view of the license a
> caricature. The license does not mention co-operation it merely tries to
> give those who purchase SaaS the same rights and privileges over source
> as the GPL permitted. As such it enables co-operation, but as you point
> out that is voluntary.
> Colin
>
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