Discuss changing license to AGPL #149
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Reference: Disroot/gpg-lacre#149
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I think it is a good idea. The users of a mailserver with gpg-lacre should have a right to the source code of the exact version of gpg-lacre responsible for encrypting their emails. The AGPL does this with Section 13:
The question is however, if the person sending an email to a server with gpg-lacre would be considered a "user" as well by the license. In this hypothetical scenario, everyone using gpg-lacre on a private mailserver would have to provide the source code of their version to whoever sent any emails there. However, I think this probably would not count as "interacting with a user", because it is interaction with other mail servers. According to the GNU Project supported by the Free Software Foundation: