[ubuntu-us-ma] Interesting concern about open-sourcing a website

[Danny Piccirillo]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 00:53, Ralph deGennaro <rmdegennaro at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> So for the person you were talking to, like Brian said, a good look at
> licenses might be worth while.  One thing about GPL's, the hosting of
> website and having users is not considered distribution.  I might be wrong
> with GPLv3; and my tiredness my be making my head fuzzy otherwise.  I'm not
> sure there is a FOSS license that would ensure that a competitors
> capitalization from the sites work be shared back to them.  And certainly
> not limiting in how much business a competitor can "take away" form the
> original authors.  The is certainly the idea behind many proprietary
> deals/licenses.
>

This is what the AGPL is for =]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License
http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html

Maybe though a good discussion on the google group you setup would be good
> to figure out something more FOSS friendly that meets the same concerns.  I
> guess this is more universal then MA businesses, but we need to start
> somewhere, and talking doesn't hurt.  :-)
>

Here's that link again for reference:
http://groups.google.com/group/ubuntu-us-ma-business


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