On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 15:06 +0000, Ciaran O'Riordan wrote:
Section 7 enumerates some specific, limited, requirements that you can supplement the GPLv3 with. The AGPL is treated completely specially: there is no specific enumeration of the single requirement for a web-quine.
That's the difference.
Not really. The mechanics of how additional requirements get added isn't important. The important thing is whether the allowed additional requirements are acceptable.
If there were no "web-quine" licences that the GPLv3 drafters wanted GPLv3 to be compatible with, then it would have been a waste to put effort into genericising the wording that allows AGPL compatibility.
Trying to genericise section 13 so that it could be in section 7 would also have needlessly delayed GPLv3 by up to five months.
That doesn't really fit with how the GPLv3 was developed. The AGPL web-quine stuff *was* in section 7, it only got moved out in draft 3.
So clearly the mechanics _are_ actually important :D
Cheers,
Alex.