Are there software licenses out there that guarantee to the user the ability to receive updates and improvements to a piece of open source software?

I don't know of any license other than the GPL that provides this guarantee to the user.

I know that I'm more motivated to learn a new tool when it is protected by the GPL because of this guarantee that future versions will also be open source.

When I license my own software, I choose the Affero GPLv3 because it provides this extra guarantee to the users, even if the software serving the user is on a webserver.

#foss #fosh #floss #flosh #freesoftware #libresoftware #opensource #proprietary #userrights #users #userfreedom #affero #afferogpl #gplv3 #afferogplv3 #gpl

Can anyone explain why #Mastodon is dropping the #Affero in its AGPLv3 license?

We have a theory but we'd like to get some input from others first.

@fluxx@chaos.social Die #AGPL ist tatsächlich auch die einzige #Lizenz, die die Ziele der #GPL im Kontext von #SaaS umzusetzen in der Lage ist. Es geht also nicht bloß darum, #Google eins auszuwischen... das ist nur ein zusätzlicher und amüsanter benefit 😉

#gnu #fsf #affero

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl

#Newspipe is a web news aggregator I wrote in #Python (with #Flask).

The source code is under #Affero #GPL v3 and hosted on #Sourcehut:
https://sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe

It is self hosted, but you can use the official instance:
https://www.newspipe.org

#Newspipe is a web news aggregator I wrote in #Python (with #Flask).

The source code is under #Affero #GPL v3 and hosted on #Sourcehut:
https://sr.ht/~cedric/newspipe

It is self hosted, but you can use the official instance:
https://www.newspipe.org