[Freedombox-discuss] AGPL code for the FreedomBox?

[James Vasile]

On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:55:44 -0500, Les Orchard <l.m.orchard at pobox.com> wrote:
> On Wed Mar  9 11:39:22 2011, Robinson Tryon wrote:
> 
> > As I understand it, the AGPL requires the distribution of source code
> > to public-facing AGPLed network services running on a machine. If I
> > take this prototype FreedomBox front-end and run it on my plug server,
> > I'll have to provide the source on that machine (or a link elsewhere).
> > I'm curious what will happen when the links hard-coded into 100,000
> > FreedomBoxes (or someone else's copycat project) go stale.
> 
> FWIW, as I understand it, this only kicks in if you're running a 
> modified version of the software. Then, you have to provide your 
> modified source in some form, somewhere. Say, on github. If you haven't 
> modified it, then a standard link back to the main project pages should 
> be fine.

If you haven't modified it, then the stock install should point to the
proper place. It only sorta does that now (it mentions the git repo in
the docs).