{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kazu-yamamoto/ghc-mod/issues/638","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kazu-yamamoto/ghc-mod/issues/638/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kazu-yamamoto/ghc-mod/issues/638/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kazu-yamamoto/ghc-mod/issues/638/events","html_url":"https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/ghc-mod/issues/638","id":109513226,"number":638,"title":"Switch back to less restrictive license than AGPL","user":{"login":"gleber","id":33185,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/33185?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber","html_url":"https://github.com/gleber","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-10-02T15:21:45Z","updated_at":"2015-10-05T14:08:11Z","closed_at":"2015-10-05T14:08:11Z","body":"Use of AGPL restricts use of software licensed under it at corporations, since AGPL is not well defined and leads to ambiguity, which corporations' lawyers do not like."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kazu-yamamoto/ghc-mod/issues/comments/145539202","html_url":"https://github.com/kazu-yamamoto/ghc-mod/issues/638#issuecomment-145539202","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/kazu-yamamoto/ghc-mod/issues/638","id":145539202,"user":{"login":"gleber","id":33185,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/33185?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber","html_url":"https://github.com/gleber","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/gleber/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-10-05T14:08:11Z","updated_at":"2015-10-05T14:08:11Z","body":"There are few aspects of AGPL which makes it problematic: given broad enough interpretation, licensor can claim that, any code which was created with a tool, becomes connected with the tool as if it interacted with it over the network, which would require the code to be also released as AGPL. The license also has not been yet tested with courts, hence lawyers prefer to keep on the safe side and prohibit use of it on any of corporate computers due to possible risks.\r\n\r\n> No actually copyright law restricts the use of software and I, as the nice person that I am and the author of said software, grant you various freedoms that you otherwise wouldn't have.\r\nI am very grateful for this and I am a happy user of ghc-mod at home for my evening projects. Thank you! Unfortunately for lawyers what counts is the license text, it's worst-case interpretation and if it was tested at court.\r\n\r\n> you really can't call it \"not well defined\".\r\nThis, again, boils down to not being tested in a court. Given how US law system works, unless there have been high enough court decisions on analogous cases, nothing is impossible :(\r\n\r\n> If your lawyers can't deal with a slight variation of a widely used license I really don't know what to tell you.\r\nYep. Me too.\r\n\r\nOn the other hand I totally understand why one might want to protect one's work by licensing their creation using AGPL, so I am closing the bug. I'll give ide-backend a try."}}