[Committee-d] Meeting tomorrow?/rallying cry

[Benj. Mako Hill]

<quote who="Brett Smith" date="Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 10:44:03AM -0400">
> * The Affero compatibility clause, section 7b4: Last I heard, Mako was
>   going to discuss the underlying goals and philosophy behind the Affero
>   GPL with Henri Poole, to see what kinds of changes might be possible for
>   GPLv3.  Has this happened yet?

I've emailed Henri at least once about talking in more depth (e.g., on
the phone) and have not heard back from him one way or another.

>   If not, it might be a good idea to just make whatever suggestions
>   we want, and assume that there's a chance the Affero GPL can be
>   updated accordingly.  RMS has already made statements suggesting
>   that this will have to be the case, so I don't think it will be a
>   problem.  But I've lost track of what changes we wanted to make
>   here....

I think we know what we'd like it to say in the ideal sense. I'm just
not sure if it's compatible with what the AGPL is trying to do (or
rather, with how it's trying to do it).

Regards,
Mako


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