Ghost stories

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Barry Warsaw wrote:
| On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
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|> Aaron Bentley writes:
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|>> If the spirit of the GPL was to provide the "Four Freedoms" to users of
|>> cscvs, then it really depends on whether you consider people who use
|>> software through the web to be "users".
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|> If the spirit of the GPL considered people who are receiving software
|> services through the web to be users, I suspect that the GPLv3 would
|> contain the "Affero" clause, and there would be no "Affero GPL".
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| Actually, the existence of a separate Affero GPLv3 appears to be a bow
| to practicality over purity:
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| http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SeparateAffero
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| -Barry
|

Actually, according to the link, there was an *optional* "Affero" section. Which
distributors could chose whether they wanted to include or not. The pragmatic
decision was that rather than have a "GPLv3 + Affero" they would just have a
"Affero GPLv3".

So it wasn't that they wanted to add Affero to all GPLv3 programs, just to make
it an option, but they felt that naming the whole license differently was better
for people to understand.

John
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