License

Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 18:14

Issue ID:	951
Issue Category:	other
Component:	uncategorized
Priority:	normal
Status:	fixed
Assigned:	evan
Version:	0.6
Milestone:	1.0

Dear developers and users,

I have a question about the GNU Affero General Public License (AGPL) of the Laconica script. This license say " In particular, if you make modifications to the Laconica source code on your server, you *MUST MAKE AVAILABLE* the modified version of the source code to your users under the same license."

If i create Metatags in the index.php file, must I share this file to all users? So yes, where can i publish this? Or is this not a modification what falls under the AGPL license?

Kind regards

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Ticket ID:

951

Reported by:

ikabel

Owner:

evan

Status:

closed

Resolution:

closed

Type:

other

Component:

uncategorized

Priority:

Version:

0.6.0

Milestone:

1.0

Updates

#1

Submitted by johndrinkwater on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 20:23.

If you add metatags to the index file, you have to share the source.
That’s how AGPL works :)

If you’re unsure how to share a copy of the source online (See code.google.com or http://gitorious.org/), then sharing a compressed archive (a ZIP archive or similar) of the whole site’s source would be acceptable.

#2

Submitted by ikabel on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 15:14.

So it's ok if I share the changed code and also theother files at http://code.google.com under Project Hosting with the Project Name "Microblogging" or something like that. I'm new at this point, thence this simple question(s).

Kind regards

#3

Submitted by Evan Prodromou on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 17:25.

There've been a couple of people who've asked about hosting on Google Code.

I'd like to ask that people not put forks or mirrors up on Google Code. Our license, the Affero GPL v3, is not one of Google's approved licenses.

So, please be respectful of Google's wishes and don't use their platform without permission. Sure, you may be able to "avoid detection", but if you do get found out, it reflects badly on the project. There are a lot of other platforms like sourceforge.net and gitorious.org that do allow AGPL code; please use them instead.

I'd like Laconica's community to be known as good neighbors on the Web.

#4

Submitted by ikabel on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 13:38.

Dear Evan,

Thanks for answering the question(s). I've a final question: Is it possible if I share the modified and theother files of Laconica in a .zip file from my own server? So yes, what are the restrictions and the conditions to do this?

Kind regards,