Add AGPL disclaimer #3441
Add AGPL disclaimer #3441
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jason-fox
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Feb 18, 2019
jason-fox
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- As requested by TSC.
* As requested by TSC.
| For the avoidance of doubt, the owners of this software licensed under an AGPL-3.0 license | ||
| wish to make a clarifying public statement as follows: | ||
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| > Please note that software derived as a result of modifying the source code of this |
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This is the same text we have in the old catalogue, isn't it?
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Yes - more specifically this the text from the TSC minutes from this morning.
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Ok. However, I think the text should be moved up, so the copyright mark "© 2019 Telefonica Investigación y Desarrollo, S.A.U" ends at the end of the README.md file.
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Satisfying all conflicting requirements within the limitations of a README is tricky.
The idea of keeping the copyright with the License section it is obvious that the copyright refers to the license - i.e. Telefonica holds the copyright and licenses under APGL. In an ideal world we wouldn't need the final disclaimer. The meaning of derivative work should be clear and there should be no problem just using copyleft software in a rights reserved project.
If you move the copyright below the disclaimer it appears to imply the following This software is licensed under AGPL, the copyright of the disclaimer held by Telefonica
Yes, ideally common practice states license at the bottom, copyright last line. It is typically just a couple of lines and doesn't have any extra text. However adding the disclaimer is an old requirement and since this week's TSC agreement was that the disclaimer must be placed prominently in the README I see leaving copyright above the disclaimer as less likely to cause confusion than moving it below.
