Re: [Savannah-users] questions about AGPL, OpenJDK

[Andreas K. Foerster]

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:20:45PM +0100, Simon Ley wrote:

> I have begun writing a MMOG in Java which I would now like to host as
> a project on savannah.nongnu.org. To me, the GNU AGPL seems to be my
> licence of choice, but I am unsure about the following:
> 
> If I put both client and server under it, wouldn't that mean that each
> client instance would have to offer its source code to the server if
> requested? I don't think it is appealing to the players if they are
> obliged to upload the whole client source data they are using,
> including images and sound. On the other hand, if I put the client
> under the GPL and the server under the AGPL, I would have to create
> two projects since I can only choose one licence per project. What
> should I do?

I don't think that the AGPL puts any additional requirements on a client.
See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq#AGPLv3ServerAsUser

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