[Aldor-l] Licence question

[Christian Aistleitner]

Hi Pippijn,

your post is no longer bloomingly fresh. However, it's only now I that I  
get a chance to read it. Therefore I am commenting on old news...

Since the original mail has been out some days ago, let me cite the  
mission statement:

On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:03:15 +0200, <pip88nl at gmail.com> wrote:

> librona is probably going to be distributed under the GNU Affero General
> Public License. It will have an exception that should allow APL2 code to
> be linked against it.

Now for the suggested solution:

> Currently, I have it [Preamble for librona to allow APL2]worded like  
> this at the beginning of each file:
>
>  You can redistribute this file under the terms of the GNU Affero General
>  Public License version 3 or later. As a special exception, you may use
>  this file as part of a differently licensed work provided the other
>  license does not violate section 6 of the GNU AGPL. See the LICENSE file
>  for more information.

But section 6 of AGPL v3 says that

   You may convey [...] object code [...] provided that you also convey the  
machine-readable Corresponding Source under the terms of this Licence,  
[...]

 From my understanding, APL2 does not require to make source code available  
upon conveying object code. Therefore, I deem APL2 cannot be "the other  
licence."

But even is the APL2 would require this, it still would not require to  
make the source code available under AGPL v3 (and that's the licence the  
phrase "this Licence" of the AGPL v3 is referring to.). Hence APL2 would  
again be out of the race.

Kind regards,
Christian