> No need for the lecture, I submitted the gpl to osi myself and I
> understand the politics. It's easy to get worked up with this stuff,
> but this is also incredibly unproductive for GPL/AGPL proejcts to take
> this approach to other open source licenses as tehre is a -lot- of
> code under apache and bsd that can and has enrich gpl/agpl projects.

> Chris

> On Nov 26, 2007 2:06 PM, Rhywek <Rhy...@gmail.com> wrote:

> > On Nov 25, 10:38 pm, "Chris DiBona" <cdib...@google.com> wrote:
> > > We have no current plans to do so. IfAGPLadoption is high enough to
> > > warrant it, we'll revisit. The question is this: Who will propose theAGPLto the OSI? :-)

> > Free Software Foundation is the highest authority when it comes to
> > free software and its licensing. So FSF asking OSI to approve their
> > licenses would be like my father asking me how to make children.

> > Those few variations of GPL released by FSF should be really supported
> > by Google's project hosting as soon as they are released. Here's why:
> > Hosting providers will allow AGPL projects if AGPL adoption is high.
> > But for the adoption to get high developers must first be able to make
> > their projects AGPL. But to do so, hosting providers must allow AGPL
> > projects. And the cycle closes.

> > Best regards,
> > Rhywek.

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