[License-discuss] Thoughts on the Pretix License?

Josh Berkus josh at berkus.org
Mon Sep 23 18:56:56 UTC 2024


On 9/23/24 11:28, Kevin P. Fleming wrote:
> I'm not excited about the attribution notice requirement indicating that a specific word in the notice must be a hyperlink to a specific URL, but given the nature of the software compliance should be easy, and if that URL becomes dead at some point no harm is done.

Oh, wait, that's a straight-up badgeware clause, and one that I would 
argue is OSD-violating, since it prevents using the code for anything 
that doesn't involve full web pages.

It's also a pretty gross perversion of AGPL clause 7b, that's not what 
7b is for.

-- 
Josh Berkus



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