From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Re: [OT] ELNODE is soon to be released as version 1.0 Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 14:31:05 -0500 Message-ID: <87sjbpmft2.fsf@earlgrey.lan> References: , <80obmfi518.fsf@somewhere.org>, , <87k3x2xxqf.fsf@gnu.org>, <87zk5xjyuw.fsf@gmail.com>, <87wr11wlr0.fsf@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:35490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1Nnv-0007XI-Ad for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:33:32 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1Nnu-0001lW-Di for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:33:31 -0400 Received: from li424-160.members.linode.com ([50.116.34.160]:57271 helo=dustycloud.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1T1Nnu-0001lR-AE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Aug 2012 16:33:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <87wr11wlr0.fsf@gmail.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Jambunathan K Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >> Is elnode a Free Software - AGPL? If elnode is under GPLv3 or later, it's still free software. > > I was looking for a license but it seems to have it under COPYING. > Anyways, should it be AGPL? I'm a big fan of the AGPL... my own personal project uses it... but I might be somewhat cautious about releasing a web framework under that library. There's a huge scope of things you may be unintentionally be forcing people to share (such as passwords, etc) especially since configuration is done in lisp. I think complying with the distribution requirements of the AGPL may be hard for a lot of elnode projects in ways that are not intended without carefully crafted exceptions. I think AGPL makes a lot of sense for web applications, but I'd be cautious about using it for libraries as such. But that's just my two cents and I know not all AGPL supporters would agree with me on this.