On Tue, 2007-11-20 at 18:30 +0100, list@akfoerster.de wrote:
Am Monday, dem 19. Nov 2007 schrieb MJ Ray:
People should cooperate voluntarily - you can adjust the balance and encourage it, but forced sharing is not true cooperation, because it breaks the principle of voluntary membership.
So, you are against "Copyleft" licenses in general? The AGPL is imho just an extended Copyleft.
That's not his point as I understand it.
If the GPL were like the AGPL in that regard, it would mean that if you allowed other people to use your software - for example, if you run an internet cafe - you would be forced to provide the source code to those visitors, even though you didn't give them a copy of the software.
The choice of whether or not to give someone a copy of free software was always inherent in the GPL, the AGPL removes that choice to some extent.
Cheers,
Alex.