Dear Ilias,
congratulations to your switch to Free Software! :)
On Sunday 05 January 2014 05:24:21 ilias.k.cs@freemail.gr wrote:
But I want to know what systems are being communicated when I make a request to such a service. EdX is open sourced under AGPL, but is this enough for me to know?
In short, how can I know what a system I am using actually does, in a legal way, besides sticking to the systems I know for certain that are free? How do we deal with uncertainty?
Unfortunately, this is something that can in my opinion not be ensured with licensing. Even an AGPL service can send your data to somebody else in the background. The only way to prevent this, is to use the AGPLed software and run the service yourself for you. This is also the best way to make sure that everything is really free.
Kind Regards, Torsten