[License-discuss] Thoughts on the Pretix License?

[McCoy Smith]

On 9/23/2024 1:29 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> It wouldn't be hard to modify that provision to make it OSD-compliant. 
> But I don't believe that it is in its current form.
>
> Academic, because Pretix isn't submitting their license variant. This 
> does point out the problem around "you may modify this license with 
> additional clauses" though.
>
To be fair, AGPLv3 says you can modify the license to give additional 
permissions, but not to add restrictions. And I think "permissions" in 
that context ought to be something that doesn't encroach on the OSD.

Removing/waiving an obligation (or per AGPL, granting an additional 
permission) is kosher, but substituting a restriction in its place would 
seem to violate both the terms of AGPLv3 and the OSD. So double bad.