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Debian Weekly News 2004/20Debian Weekly News 2004/20Posted May 19, 2004 18:52 UTC (Wed) by JoeBuck (subscriber, #2330)In reply to: Debian Weekly News 2004/20 by bpearlmutter Parent article: Debian Weekly News 2004/20
In the context of the Affero license, the program implements a mechanism to "redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor", and forbids derivative works from removing that mechanism; other than that, the Affero license is the same as the GPL. Now, I find the way Affero did it overly restrictive (as it appears any modified program must contain, or be used with, an HTTP server), but I am not convinced that their attempt violates the four freedoms, or that if it does, no modification of the idea could fix the problem. In short, I would reject the Affero license for practical reasons, but would not necessarily insist on its non-freeness.
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