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Egon Willigh鈽甮en 馃煡
@egonw@mastodon.social  路  activity timestamp 7 days ago

hi all, I got a legal question.

The GPL is a copyleft license, which may be very important in the coming years to fight the grab an run. We have to protect ourselves from malicious coders.

The AGPL adds clauses that do this for server code, where the code generated website content and the code is not shared.

Who can point me to a legal write up of GPL versus AGPL for code that runs in the browser, like client-side JavaScript and webasm?

#openscience #legal #license

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Travis F W
@travisfw@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@egonw like that would include clauses regarding minification or obfuscation? JS source is inherently intact by design, but then there are a thousand reasons why that source may not be what was actually written or kept in VCS.

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Egon Willigh鈽甮en 馃煡
@egonw@mastodon.social replied  路  activity timestamp 7 days ago

@travisfw great points! yes, aspects like that!

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Travis F W
@travisfw@fosstodon.org replied  路  activity timestamp 6 days ago

@egonw well maybe look at MPL and see what from GPLv3 you think might be missing, eg "anti-TiVOization" clauses (source must be usable and buildable)

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