<div dir="ltr"><div>Anish,<br><br>Can you lay out the AGPL vs GPL choice before next week's Thur Nov 6 meeting? (10AM NYC Time, OK for you?)<br><br></div>And make clear that content licensing (hosted by school server) is very different, as schools/districts/ministries-of-education quite reasonably insist they need to accommodate so many different kinds of content licenses? (Some of which licenses are plainly abusive, whereupon communities/families/teachers/kids need to mobilize, when "publishing innovation" becomes nothing more than a pretext mass surveillance and other privacy abuses.)<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 11:26 AM, Anish Mangal <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:anishmangal2002@gmail.com" target="_blank">anishmangal2002@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p dir="ltr">GPL or AGPL? Can/Should we ask the IIAB maintainers and contributors for permission to license under GPL if it's not too complicated?</p><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
<div class="gmail_quote">On Oct 31, 2014 8:52 PM, "Tim Moody" <<a href="mailto:tim@timmoody.com" target="_blank">tim@timmoody.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>I am starting to write larger chunks of code and wondering what copyright
and licensing I should include. Any suggestions welcome. (In Canada
copyright rests with the author unless it is relinquished.)</div>
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<div>Most XS code has something like:</div>
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<div># Copyright 2007, One Laptop per Child</div>
<div># Author: John Watlington</div>
<div>#</div>
<div># This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or</div>
<div># modify it under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License</div>
<div># as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2</div>
<div># of the License, or (at your option) any later version.</div>
<div>#</div>
<div># This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,</div>
<div># but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of</div>
<div># MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the</div>
<div># GNU General Public License for more details.</div>
<div>#</div>
<div># You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public</div>
<div># License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software</div>
<div># Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA</div>
<div># 02111-1307, USA.</div>
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<div>IIAB has:</div>
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<div>This software is licensed with the BSD 2-clause license</div>
<div>(See <a href="http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)" target="_blank">http://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause)</a></div>
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<div>Copyright (c) 2013, Humane Informatics LLC</div>
<div>All rights reserved.</div>
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<div>Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without</div>
<div>modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:</div>
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<div> Redistributions of source code must retain the above
copyright notice, this</div>
<div>list of conditions and the following disclaimer.</div>
<div> Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above
copyright notice,</div>
<div>this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation</div>
<div>and/or other materials provided with the distribution.</div>
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<div>THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
AND</div>
<div>ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
IMPLIED</div>
<div>WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
ARE</div>
<div>DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
LIABLE</div>
<div>FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
CONSEQUENTIAL</div>
<div>DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS
OR</div>
<div>SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION)
HOWEVER</div>
<div>CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT
LIABILITY,</div>
<div>OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE
USE</div>
<div>OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.</div>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;FONT-FAMILY:'Calibri';COLOR:#000000">Tim<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ <a href="http://unleashkids.org" target="_blank">http://unleashkids.org</a> !</div></div>
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