Re: FSF releases the "GNU AGPL v3" license

[MJ Ray]

"Noah Slater" <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 25/11/2007, MJ Ray <address@hidden> wrote:
> > It remains a shame that an output-marking licence is being used, but
> > this is no worse than the old one.  Please continue to track copyright
> > holders, so that this bug can be fixed later without a total rewrite.
>
> What is an "output-marking" licence?

One that requires the output of the software to include a prominent
offer of its corresponding source code, including any methods,
authorisation keys and other information.  That's quite a big
increase on being required to acknowledge the holders and terms.

Hope that explains,
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