Alex Hudson home@alexhudson.com wrote:
Ah, ok. I suspect MJ's point was related to other free software licences, but he can clarify that if not.
I actually meant GPLv3 was less hacker-friendly than GPLv2, but GPLv2 was already less hacker-friendly than many other free software licences. Just the sheer length and complexity of concepts made it that way. In GPLv2, much of that seemed necessary. With GPLv3, I'm not sure yet.
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So, primarily, I don't see that web applications should get special treatment, and I wouldn't like to see such a feature in (e.g) CLI applications. [...]
I don't see how requiring programmers to include more than a simple information statement in a program's output is acceptable for free software. IIRC, AGPL seemed to claim it was to do with that output being a network-based user interface, but that's a very dodgy line crossed from the GPL, which doesn't place obnoxious restrictions on program output. For example, do survey form design programs have a paper-based user interface or is that merely output? Why should the freedom standard differ if that form design is to HTTP not paper?
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