On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 1:45 AM Paul Jakma wrote: > There is an issue with the GPL style copyleft of abuse by corporates. In > particular, abusing the ability to discharge source distribution > privately, and then using various forms of side-contracts to > (indirectly) "discourage" recipients from exercising their GPL rights. > > As this all happens in private, it makes it hard for copyright holders > to take action. It can be hard to gather basic facts (e.g. the side > contracts). The recipients - who are potentially having their GPL > rights impinged - are not necessarily willing to even tell the > copyright holders about this, never mind co-operate. Etc.
If you are talking about grsecurity, the contract from 2017 was on their website, is now on archive.org but the current version is not public: https://web.archive.org/web/20170805231029/https://grsecurity.net/agree/agreement.php https://grsecurity.net/agree/agreement.php https://grsecurity.net/agree/agreement_faq.php > Then there's the more general issue that the AGPL doesn't really work > for non-interactive distributed-system software, should you want your > distributed-system software to have its source be made available to > anyone operating other bits (or implementations of) the distributed > system. I think that would depend on the protocol used and that many of them would have room for extensions that could include instructions for obtaining source code. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
