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Chris DiBona  
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 More options Nov 26 2007, 5:10 pm
From: "Chris DiBona" <cdib...@google.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 14:10:05 -0800
Local: Mon, Nov 26 2007 5:10 pm
Subject: Re: AGPL license
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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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