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On 2016-11-09 14:51:12 -0500 (-0500), Ade Lee wrote:
> Is AGPLv3+ an acceptable license for a third party library that is a
> dependency for an Openstack project?
[...]
> Is AGPL the same as AGPLv3 (and therefore not acceptable)?

I'm no lawyer, but my understanding is that the GNU AGPLv3 is merely
a variant of the GNU GPLv3 which adds a condition aimed at closing
the "application service provider loophole" in much the same way as
the original Affero GPL. So given that we disallow dependencies
licensed under GPLv3 and AGPL, the same concerns would seem to apply
to the AGPLv3 as well.

It might merit expressly mentioning AGPLv3 in our licensing
reference, though I expect this was assumed to be sufficiently clear
on that point already.
-- 
Jeremy Stanley
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