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Can you please include a copy of the AGPLv3 with the code base? #8030

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willtop43 opened this issue Jan 25, 2024 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #8033
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Can you please include a copy of the AGPLv3 with the code base? #8030

willtop43 opened this issue Jan 25, 2024 · 2 comments · May be fixed by #8033

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willtop43 commented Jan 25, 2024 •
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It is awesome you have chosen the AGPLv3 for CKAN. However, the AGPLv3 requires that a copy of the license be provided with the source (Section 4). The link in the README is not quite sufficient. I know this seems trivial, and I don't think CKAN (as author and copyright holder) is necessarily obligated* to include the license. However, anybody downstream who clones the CKAN repo and distributes it would be in violation of the license if they don't download a copy of the AGPLv3 and include it in the code base.

*I don't know if this is 100% correct because I am not a lawyer and this is definitely not legal advice.

Can you please include a copy of the AGPLv3 in the code base?

Thanks in advance.

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wardi commented Jan 30, 2024

This already exists as LICENSE.txt

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Thanks for replying. The LICENSE.txt does not have a full copy of the AGPLv3. Without it, anyone downstream distributors would violate the AGPLv3 unless they get a copy themselves and include it in the code base. Why not do them a favor and include a copy of AGPLv3 with ckan??

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