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geeksoflondon / grid4rails

BarCamp's digital grid system
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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We need to decide on a license #76

Closed tommorris closed 13 years ago

tommorris commented 13 years ago

When we started working on Griddy, we put off deciding on a license.

I'm going to suggest that we should go with the Affero General Public License v. 3.0. It is a free software license specifically designed for web apps. It is used by a variety of web apps including StatusNet, OTRS, CiviCRM, and many others.

The AGPL is functionally similar for web apps as the GPL is for desktop and server apps. Under the AGPL, others have all of Stallman's four freedoms, and have to share modifications made (like GPL does for desktop apps and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike does for creative works like text and images).

If we can get consensus on using the AGPL, we can then modify the README and include a LICENSE.txt file.

If there isn't consensus on using the AGPL, we'll close this issue and decide on another license.

Any objections?

cbetta commented 13 years ago

I have no idea on all this stuff so as long as stallman is happy I am

tommorris commented 13 years ago

cbetta: can I take that as a "so long as everyone else comes to a sane, consensual decision, I'll go with whatever"? ;-)

cbetta commented 13 years ago

Yeah. Although I think my beer-license is still a viable option too.

On 27 September 2011 16:53, Tom Morris < reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

cbetta: can I take that as a "so long as everyone else comes to a sane, consensual decision, I'll go with whatever"? ;-)

Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/geeksoflondon/grid4rails/issues/76#issuecomment-2212463

martian-a commented 13 years ago

Good with me too.

kevinprince commented 13 years ago

Beer sounds good. But AGPL also fine.

As long as I dont get a bill for laywers.

leeky commented 13 years ago

Sounds good here!

markstickley commented 13 years ago

Sounds A-OK to me :)

tommorris commented 13 years ago

Morena has sent me an email confirming she is okay with the AGPL.

I'll sort the licensing out shortly.

tommorris commented 13 years ago

All done. We now have a license in the README and a LICENSE file containing the full text of the license.