Re:Mailpile Chooses AGPL v3
by wahnfrieden on Thursday July 02, 2015 @09:00PM
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Keep in mind the custom wording will make it harder for some companies to use your code, since accepting additional licenses can require lawyer approval. This adds value to choosing one of the common licenses over crafting a similar fork.
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LGPL was intended to be a standardization of "GPL with the Classpath exception".
Perhaps we need a similar license for "AGPL with the Classpath exception".
Maybe call it LAGPL or something.
LGPL predates the classpath exception by quite a while, and doesn't serve the same purpose at all.
The classpath exception is intended to cause the target software to not have a license change just because it used a certain runtime library (classpath).
The LGPL has different aims entirely (around allowing library components for software).
Essentially, the classpath exception was written for programming language runtime libraries (and is thus the basis of what later became the gcc runtime library exception).
The LGPL was written for random library software, and started out much earlier than the classpath exception (by a decade or two).