Re: Building applications without AGPL restriction

[Christian Grothoff]

Hi Marty,

The AGPL requires you to make the source code available, and we will not
allow linking of non-free code against GNUnet or the development of
SaaSS that would be in violation of the Affero GPL.

The goal of the GNU(net) project is to give users control over their
computing and data on the Internet. That is not something you can
achieve with proprietary software, and we will certainly not condone or
even support the development of proprietary software by using pushover
licenses [1].

Happy hacking!

Christian

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-compatibility.html

On 10/21/22 07:48, marty1885 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been interested in GNUnet for quite a while now. Recently I got time to
> learn the API and be able to build a C++ wrapper for some of the subsystems.
> It's fun!
> 
> Now I want to build applications using GNUnet. As I understand, GNUnet is
> licensed under AGPL thus my application also has to be AGPL. But it may not be
> suitable for my use case.
> 
> For example I want to show GNUnet stats on my personal website. Or some REST
> that exposes GNUnet metadata, FS proxy for download, DHT get/put, etc.. Which
> enable others to have easy-ish access to GNUnet. But I don't want to force 
> them
> to also use AGPL. (Or even some security/commercial application in the 
> future.)
> 
> Is it possible to let applications be licensed under BSD/MIT/LGPL (or even via
> special clauses in GNUnet) without complicating the code?
> 
> I know this is a long shot. But no harm to ask.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Martin
>