| Sourceforge: Affero GPL - Closing the GPL ASP Loophole |
May 22, 2002
A DesktopLinux.com reader sent in this link regarding a new license developed by Henri Poole, former CEO of MandrakeSoft. In Poole's new venture, Affero, he sought to close the 'GPL distribution loophole' and created the Affero General Public License (AGPL) in March. A link to additional information and a brief overview are below . . .
"Fundamentally, all open source communities want others to modify their software and contribute those modifications back to their projects. The General Public License (GPL) mandates this by requiring that modifications to software licensed under the GPL also be distributed under the GPL. However, what happens when the software is hosted somewhere else on the network?"
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