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Chris DiBona  
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 More options Apr 10 2008, 6:34 pm
From: "Chris DiBona" <cdib...@google.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:34:37 +0200
Local: Thurs, Apr 10 2008 6:34 pm
Subject: Re: AGPL license
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Basically the answer is when I, Fitz, Greg or the team think it is
popular enough. I know you guys think we don't like it for nefarious
reasons, but what you're missing is we dislike -all- new licenses that
are unpopular. They lead to bifurcation of the open source development
world and that is a high price to pay.

I personally think the AGPL is deeply flawed, and I've commented on
that on my own blog and on others, but that really -doesn't- matter.
If the AGPL gets to be popular, like lgpl or bsd popular, than we'll
certainly offer it as an option on code.google.com, but until then,
it'll be a judgment call on our part. One you might not agree on, but
that's okay.

Chris

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:08 AM, Michael R. Bernstein

<mich...@fandomhome.com> wrote:

>  On Apr 10, 5:14 am, "Greg Stein" <gst...@google.com> wrote:
>  > We said right from the beginning of this thread: popularity *and*
>  > OSI-approval. It now has the latter, but not the former.

>  > What is unfortunate for the community is the *spin* that we are
>  > against the AGPL for business reasons. No, we just choose not to make
>  > it one of the licenses available on Google Code. There are dozens and
>  > dozens of others that are more popular, but we don't make available
>  > either. The spin is marking us The Bad Guy, but we're doing exactly
>  > what we said months ago, and we're continuing to follow our original
>  > goal for project hosting: encourage the reduction of license
>  > proliferation. That has been one of our goals since our launch in July
>  > 2006, and we don't intend to lose sight of it now.

>  Fair enough. What is the threshold number of AGPL-licensed projects
>  "in the wild" that will constitute enough popularity for inclusion of
>  GNU AGPL as an option in Google Code? Chris has mentioned a few
>  somewhat fuzzy standards here and elsewhere, but no definitive number.

>  - Michael

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