[Owncloud] Distro packages and AGPL3 compliance

[Victor Dubiniuk]

Hi

On Fri, Jul 5, 2013 at 2:54 PM, Lars Meyser <larsmeyser at yahoo.de> wrote:

>
>
> ----- Ursprüngliche Message -----
>
> > Von: Erwin Rennert <rennert at zsi.at>
> > An: owncloud at kde.org
> > CC:
> > Gesendet: 13:06 Freitag, 5.Juli 2013
> > Betreff: Re: [Owncloud] Distro packages and AGPL3 compliance
> >
> > You should be aware that Debain - as do Fedora and Suse - provide source
> > packages for the binary packages they offer. So, the distributions
> > already fulfill the requrements of the AGPL.
>
> Yes, they fulfill their obligations for distributing packages.
>
> > You should also be aware that you would need to provide the sources only
> > if you were to *distribute binary packages* of owncloud. This, however,
> > I believe is not your intention. You merely want to offer the use of the
> > software; not the software itself.
>
> This is the case for the GPL, the AGPLv3 has this additional provision for
> remote network interaction:
>
>
> ----
>
> 13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License.
>
> Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the
> Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users
> interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version
> supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding
> Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source
> from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary
> means of facilitating copying of software. [...]
>
> ----
>
> So if I offer a modified version of owncloud to other users over the
> network I am obliged to make the source available online in a "prominent"
> way.
>
>

Well, push it to github ;)

Victor



>
> > BTW, you can legally send e-mails without having to provide the source
> > code of GPLed software such as Postfix, Exim or G-d forbid, sendmail. :-)
>
> That is simply because Postfix, Exim, and sendmail are available under the
> IBM public license, GPLv3, and the sendmail license respectively which do
> not have such provisions.
>
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