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and subject line please don't file AGPL freeness bugs until #495721 is resolved
has caused the Debian Bug report #506042,
regarding yocto-reader: infinite download liability for public use
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Source: yocto-reader
Version: 0.9.3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1
yocto-reader is under the AGPLv3 with no clarifications.
Clause 13 of the AGPLv3 requires any hosting user to provide "access
to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge" to
every visitor to the web pages generated by this software. If used to
produce a public website, this is an infinite download liability and a
significant cost may result from running the software. Further, the
cost is disproportionate to the modification because the whole
software must be offered and not only the modifications.
So, I believe this does not meet DFSG 1, 4, 3 and/or 6 as it stands:
it requires a fee for use, restricts the source code from being
modified without allowing distribution of patch files, and/or
discriminates against use of modified versions for production of
public websites.
I think some copyright holders of software under AGPLv3 have stated
that linking to an upstream download site is sufficient provision of
access for the parts you did not modify, regardless of the
availability of that site, which would clear DFSG 4 and make the DFSG
1 and 6 concerns very very small. For example
http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2008/08/msg00056.html
There is nothing in the FSF FAQ about this either way yet.
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl-faq.html
Would yocto-reader's copyright holders agree to make a similar
statement?
Thank you for packaging yocto-reader,
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Hi,
yocto-reader has been accepted into Debian by the FTP team. As this has
not been an "accident", this means that the working opinion of the FTP
team is that AGPL meets the DFSG criteria.
As such, this bug is invalid until the FTP team decision is reversed.
In order to alleviate doubts you may have about the status of the AGPL,
Miriam Ruiz has filed #495721 in order to get a rationale for said decision.
Kind regards
T.
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