0004163: Change JasperServer license to Affero GPL v3
Description
With the Spring upgrade, licenses of all components are being reviewed. The Affero GPL v3 license gives good license "compatibility". GPL v3 Compatible licenses are:
* Apache v2, not 1.1
* MPL 1.1 (not 1.0)
* LGPL
* BSD/FreeBSD
* "Public Domain"
* Other compatible licenses as per http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses [^]
* If a component can be licensed in multiple ways, then one of the above licenses has to be an option
Developers that use our General Public Licenses protect your rights with two steps: (1) assert copyright on the software, and (2) offer you this License which gives you legal permission to copy, distribute and/or modify the software.
A secondary benefit of defending all users' freedom is that improvements made in alternate versions of the program, if they receive widespread use, become available for other developers to incorporate. Many developers of free software are heartened and encouraged by the resulting cooperation. However, in the case of software used on network servers, this result may fail to come about. The GNU General Public License permits making a modified version and letting the public access it on a server without ever releasing its source code to the public.
The GNU Affero General Public License is designed specifically to ensure that, in such cases, the modified source code becomes available to the community. It requires the operator of a network server to provide the source code of the modified version running there to the users of that server. Therefore, public use of a modified version, on a publicly accessible server, gives the public access to the source code of the modified version.
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(0008236)
swood
11/11/2009 02:41
Included in 3.7.0 release candidate
(0008947)
swood
03/11/2010 00:30
In 3.7.0 release
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07/25/2009 01:08
swood
New Issue
07/25/2009 01:08
swood
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=> swood
07/30/2009 01:13
swood
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swood =>
07/30/2009 01:13
swood
Status
new => assigned
11/11/2009 02:41
swood
Note Added: 0008236
11/11/2009 02:41
swood
Status
assigned => resolved
11/11/2009 02:41
swood
Resolution
open => fixed
11/11/2009 02:41
swood
Assigned To
=> swood
03/11/2010 00:30
swood
Note Added: 0008947
03/11/2010 00:30
swood
Status
resolved => closed
03/11/2010 00:30
swood
Fixed in Version
=> 3.7.0
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