[HN Gopher] Copyleft license that infects dependent or operation...
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Copyleft license that infects dependent or operational software
Author : candiddevmike
Score : 12 points
Date : 2023-08-11 15:13 UTC (7 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (github.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (github.com)
| candiddevmike wrote:
| Candid Public License (CPL) is a modified version of the GNU
| Affero General Public License v3.0 (AGPL). It's intent is to
| encourage organizations to open source software that depends on
| or operates work covered by the CPL, or negotiate a separate
| license for the work.
|
| The AGPL was originally created to help users of Software-as-a-
| Service (SaaS) receive the source code for modified works as the
| GNU General Public License (GPL) did not qualify network
| interaction as distribution.
|
| The CPL builds upon the AGPL to create an infectious copyleft
| requirement for all software that depends upon the work or
| builds/operates the work. For organizations that are already
| source available, this change shouldn't impact them. For other
| organizations, they will need to release the source code for the
| dependent software. They may also negotiate a separate license to
| use the work.
| klysm wrote:
| To be immediately banned at organizations everywhere
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