On 3/20/14, 8:22 AM, Richard Fontana wrote:
I'm no fan (personally) of AGPLv3, but taking a stance that there must be a way of deploying OpenStack in production without requiring any AGPLv3 code to be deployed is a significant policy decision for the project and I don't think we've ever articulated the reasons clearly for it. Such a policy would be unprecedented for any Apache License 2.0
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 08:22:12AM +0000, Mark McLoughlin wrote: project as far as I am aware. For comparisons look at the legal policies of the Apache Software Foundation, which don't go this far.
Such a policy needs to be made on a project-by-project basis, as well, especially w/r/t AGPL code. MongoDB/10Gen has communicated very clearly where they consider their copyright boundary to exist, and I believe that legally that functions as a waiver/license if they would ever end up being wrong (which I don't think they would, as I believe a network communication creates a copyright boundary). Thanks, Van