[Discussioni] la GNU Affero General Public License

[Francesco Potorti`]

Solo l'inizio che spiega cos'è, perché è lunga.  Qualcuno la conosce?
Un riassuntino o un commento?

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                    GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
              Last Call Draft (2) of Version 3, 14 August 2007

THIS IS A DRAFT, NOT A PUBLISHED VERSION OF THE GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC
LICENSE.

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  The GNU Affero General Public License is a free, copyleft license
for software and other kinds of works, specifically designed to ensure
cooperation with the community in the case of network server software.

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  A secondary benefit of defending all users' freedom is that
improvements made in alternate versions of the program, if they
receive widespread use, become available for other developers to
incorporate.  Many developers of free software are heartened and
encouraged by the resulting cooperation.  However, in the case of
software used on network servers, this result may fail to come about.
The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and
letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its
source code to the public.

  The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to
ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available
to the community.  It requires the operator of a network server to
provide the source code of the modified version running there to the
users of that server.  Therefore, public use of a modified version, on
a publicly accessible server, gives the public access to the source
code of the modified version.

  The precise terms and conditions for copying, distribution and
modification follow.

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