Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project

On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Ian Jackson
<ijackson(at)chiark(dot)greenend(dot)org(dot)uk> wrote:
> Eitan Adler writes ("Re: Copyright arrangements for a web project"):
>> On Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Ian Jackson
>> <ijackson(at)chiark(dot)greenend(dot)org(dot)uk> wrote:
>> > * Personally I'm an AGPLv3 proponent. The system ought to be suitable
>> > for AGPLv3 provided that its submodules are AGPLv3-compatible (and
>> > if they aren't, then we can probably write a licence exception).
>> > (The main program I'm thinking of here is a Ruby on Rails
>> > application.) What are people's feelings about AGPLv3 ?
>>
>> It is the least-free license currently approved by the OSI.
>
> Just out of interest, would you describe the GPLv3 as "less free" than
> the MIT licence ?

Yes: there are more restrictions using GPLv3 software than when using
MIT software. I fear we may be getting into a license flamewar so I
shall only discuss further off-list.

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Eitan Adler