I thought for a while about the license.

Fixing the ASP loophole means trying to escape from companies using a trick to avoid returning changes to the code back to the community[1]. I agree with such position. GNU AGPL is free, copyleft, approved by OSI, FSF, and used by successful projects : MongoDB, SugarCRM, OTRS, etc. If anyone want to discuss collaboration or re-licensing, for example to monetize library services, feel free to contact me privately.

Hern��n

[1] http://www.fabcapo.com/2008/02/we-have-submitted-agpl-to-osi.html

2016-09-06 18:03 GMT-03:00 Tudor Girba <tudor@tudorgirba.com>:

Hi Hern��n,

I believe Stef was asking about the choice of picking a viral license vs the permissive MIT one that we use in code that gets into Pharo (and several other larger related projects).

Cheers,
Doru

> On Sep 6, 2016, at 10:28 PM, Hern��n Morales Durand <hernan.morales@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Stef,
>
> I used the License Differentiator tool at http://oss-watch.ac.uk/apps/licdiff/
>
> I like it because it fixes the 'ASP (application service provider) loophole' or 'privacy loophole' problem (See Choice Six in the tool)
>
> Hern��n
>
>
> 2016-09-06 16:47 GMT-03:00 stepharo <stepharo@free.fr>:
> Hi hernan
>
> why do you picked AGPL? We try to protect our community against license hell.
> Stef
> Le 6/9/16 �� 11:40, Hern��n Morales Durand a ��crit :
>>
>> Hi Stephan,
>>
>> 2016-09-06 2:52 GMT-03:00 Stephan Eggermont <stephan@stack.nl>:
>> On 06/09/16 06:24, Hern��n Morales Durand wrote:
>>
>> I am happy to announce the release of Territorial, a new Smalltalk
>> library for Geographical Information Retrieval in geopolitical objects.
>>
>> Nice. Please tell us about your license choice
>>
>>
>> License of the library is AGPL v3 (it is in the Notes and disclaimers of the manual)
>> License of the documentation is CC BY-SA 3.0
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Hern��n
>>
>> Stephan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>

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