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Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL
From: |
Florian Weimer |
Subject: |
Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL |
Date: |
Mon, 22 Mar 2021 08:23:18 +0100 |
* Jacob Bachmeyer:
> is the SSPL actually derived from the AGPL?
Yes, it is.
> If so, does the SSPL itself infringe the FSF's copyright on the GPL
> license text?
Yes, but the FSF has given a wide-ranging permission to create and
distribute derivative works of the GPL itself:
| Can I modify the GPL and make a modified license?
|
| It is possible to make modified versions of the GPL, but it tends
| to have practical consequences.
|
| You can legally use the GPL terms (possibly modified) in another
| license provided that you call your license by another name and
| do not include the GPL preamble, and provided you modify the
| instructions-for-use at the end enough to make it clearly
| different in wording and not mention GNU (though the actual
| procedure you describe may be similar).
|
| If you want to use our preamble in a modified license, please
| write to <licensing@gnu.org> for permission. For this purpose we
| would want to check the actual license requirements to see if we
| approve of them.
|
| Although we will not raise legal objections to your making a
| modified license in this way, we hope you will think twice and
| not do it. Such a modified license is almost certainly
| incompatible with the GNU GPL, and that incompatibility blocks
| useful combinations of modules. The mere proliferation of
| different free software licenses is a burden in and of itself.
|
| Rather than modifying the GPL, please use the exception
| mechanism offered by GPL version 3.
<https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#ModifyGPL>
I think this is clear enough, and it overrides the terms at the start
of the GPL.
- Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL, (continued)
Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL, Florian Weimer, 2021/03/21
- Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL, Jean Louis, 2021/03/21
- Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL, Florian Weimer, 2021/03/21
- Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL, Jean Louis, 2021/03/21
- Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL, Florian Weimer, 2021/03/21
- Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL, Jean Louis, 2021/03/21
Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL, Jacob Bachmeyer, 2021/03/21
Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL, Jean Louis, 2021/03/22
Re: SSPL or server side public license, GNU better update the AGPL,
Florian Weimer <=