ownCloud 1.0: towards freedom in the cloud

Posted Jul 1, 2010 21:56 UTC (Thu) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
Parent article: ownCloud 1.0: towards freedom in the cloud

> a completely open source replacement, using the AGPL license,

Unfortunately, the AGPL is not a sane free software license. The only practical effect of the AGPL is to prevent fork, because it make developers responsible for the runtime behavior of the software. On the other hand, users do not need to agree with the license, so they can run it behind a proxy that will remove all references to the source code.

ownCloud 1.0: towards freedom in the cloud

Posted Jul 2, 2010 9:30 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (2 responses)

because it make developers responsible for the runtime behavior of the software

As if we aren't anyway? The runtime behaviour of the software is the only reason we implemented it in the first place...

ownCloud 1.0: towards freedom in the cloud

Posted Jul 2, 2010 12:42 UTC (Fri) by ballombe (subscriber, #9523) [Link] (1 responses)

Most free software license include a disclaimer of warranty, so developers are not liable for the runtime behaviour of the software. This is the opposite with the AGPL.

ownCloud 1.0: towards freedom in the cloud

Posted Jul 7, 2010 11:29 UTC (Wed) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

We may not be *liable* (in the sense that some lawyer can come and take all our worldly possessions) but I think that we are in some sense still *responsible* for bugs in code we write.