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Re: Is the APSL 2.0 DFSG-compliant?



Hi Walter,

On August 5, 2022 1:03:18 AM EDT, Walter Landry <wlandry@wlandry.net> wrote:
>As someone who participated in that original exchange in 2004, APSL 2.0
>still looks impossible to follow.  If Debian suddenly goes off-line,
>Debian is not in compliance with the license.

How exactly does Debian "go off-line", with so many mirrors and other forms of redundancy?

>For all of the other
>licenses, offering the source at the same time is sufficient.  For APSL
>2.0, Debian has to keep the source archive up for at least 12 months
>since it last published a modification.

Doesn't the GPL2 mandate three years of distribution for non-personal modifications?

--
Ben Westover

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