Bradley M. Kühn
@bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org
Software freedom activist since 1992. Copyleft theorist & FOSS policy wonk. Expert in FOSS non-profit structures. Views expressed herein are mine & not necessarily those of any organization w/ which I'm affiliated. Fediverse “claim to fame”: Invented “Affero clause” of #Mastodon's license: https://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2007/11/21/stet-and-agplv3 1ˢᵗ #Linux: 0.99pl12 1ˢᵗ #Debian: 🧊🥔 Pronouns: he/them #copyleft, #ethics for #LLMGenAI, #FOSS, #OpenSource, #AGPLv3, #GPL, #LGPL 🏳️🌈
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#OSI leadership (both past & present) seem to take every opportunity to pretend AGPLv3§7¶4 doesn't exist.
This time, it's done w/ sneaky & subtle politics. Pay particular attention to OSI's former Executive Director & a current Board seat occupant's posts upthread to mine:
https://lists.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss_lists.opensource.org/2026-August/022583.html
For the record again: a license of “AGPLv3 plus further-restriction” is both an #OpenSource & #FreeSoftware license *b/c*
AGPLv3§7¶4 allows reset to plain #AGPLv3 downstream!
#copyleft #AGPL