Problems with Ghostscript license switched to AGPL?

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Wed Jul 30 05:41:30 UTC 2014


On 07/30/2014 04:40 AM, Adam Goode wrote:
> Is seems like a problem that these packages depend on an AGPL package.
> This list suggests to me that running a print server (cups) or XMPP
> server (ejabberd) would put a burden on me to comply with AGPL. Am I
> misunderstanding something?

This should go to legal at .  I think the interpretation in Fedora land is 
that the AGPL does not affect Fedora users who run Fedora software 
without making any changes because the special restriction on top of the 
GPLv3 only applies to licensees who make modifications to the software.

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security


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