Hi, Some time ago, I wanted to package [1] a fork of the Python library Soya3D called PySoy [2]. They were releasing it under GPLv3 until now, but they have relicensed it as AGPLv3 [3] right now. We have had a debate in debian-legal [4] about the possible consecuences of accepting AGPLv3 as DFSG-free [5] and, even though it's not totally closed, it seems that we won't be able to consider it free. Of course the final decision is to be made by ftpmasters and they haven't answered yet [6]. According to Arc, main developer for PySoy, Mark Shuttleworth believes in the freeness of AGPLv3, so they will have all that stuff in their Ubuntu universe/main repositories, even though the MOTU (Masters Of The Universe, the Ubuntu team that manages universe/multiverse repositories) doesn't seem to think the same. It makes sense that Ubuntu considers that because my feeling is that Ubuntu and FSF are getting along really well and very close to each other. In any case, i wanted to know, mostly out of curiosity, what is the point of view about Fedora regarding AGPLv3, and whether you consider it free or not. Thanks and greetings, Miry [1] http://bugs.debian.org/495172 [2] http://www.pysoy.org/ [3] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html [4] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/08/threads.html [5] http://www.debian.org/social_contract [6] http://bugs.debian.org/495721 Some other relevant links: http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/09/msg00032.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/03/msg00380.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2007/09/msg00061.html AGPL stands for GNU Affero General Public License and it's a slightly modified GPLv3 license with the extra restriction (clause 13): "if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software" _______________________________________________ Fedora-games-list mailing list Fedora-games-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-games-list
