[License-discuss] Question about AGPLv3 with a Plugin Exception

[Lawrence Rosen]

Kevin Fleming said:
Please keep in mind that if your application incorporates or relies upon any
other code (to which you do not hold the copyrights) that is also licensed
under the AGPL, you cannot grant an exception (really, an 'additional
permission') on your code which is combined with it, since you can't grant
that same additional permission on the third-party code you are using....

I think that is too strong a statement. Even AGPL code can be combined with
other code without impacting the AGPL license. The word "combined" is
overbroad. 

/Larry

Lawrence Rosen
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Please keep in mind that if your application incorporates or relies upon any
other code (to which you do not hold the copyrights) that is also licensed
under the AGPL, you cannot grant an exception (really, an 'additional
permission') on your code which is combined with it, since you can't grant
that same additional permission on the third-party code you are using.

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 3:07 PM McCoy Smith <mccoy at lexpan.law> wrote:
>
> You might want to check out the SPDX lists of exceptions:
>
> https://spdx.org/licenses/exceptions-index.html
>
> On Aug 10, 2022, at 12:35 PM, Joel Kelley <jkelley at georgefox.edu> wrote:
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