Hey,
I'm currently working on an open source project under The GNU Affero General Public License and I had a question.
Out of all the people developing this project, there is one group that has made a rather large development in it, and according the the license:
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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.
So if they refused to make their source public (yes, their project is currently open to the public to use, just not the source), what actions could be taken? Would suing be an option (this is just hypothetical).
If so, who would sue? Would outside developers who have started working on the source be able to sue? Or would only the original group who made the source in the first place and put the license on it be able to?
Just a question I had and was curious about.
25 Sep, 2008 - 11:36 AM
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