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Hello,
I appreciate your work, and considering the time you spend developing, I also appreciate your will to distribute CMSimple under AGPL terms.
As a supporter of framasoft.org team (an important French Internet community composed of open-source software user), I'm quite involved in open-source question.
I'd like to write an article about your soft to present it here : http://www.framasoft.org/rubrique168.html
I need to determinate the licence of your software and, though I'm not a jurist, I've been very surprised by the notice you added in CMSimple license :
IMPORTANT NOTICE: As covered by the AGPL Section 2(d), the "Powered by CMSimple"-link to cmsimple.dk must under no circumstances be removed from pages generated by this program (except in print facility). If you want to remove or hide this link from your pages, you must purchase CMSimple under a commercial license. This also applies testing purposes and setup at an intranet or internal network.
After some easy verification, it is not exactly true. AGPL section 2 (d) specifies :
d) If the Program as you received it is intended to interact with users through a computer network and if, in the version you received, any user interacting with the Program was given the opportunity to request transmission to that user of the Program's complete source code, you must not remove that facility from your modified version of the Program or work based on the Program, and must offer an equivalent opportunity for all users interacting with your Program through a computer network to request immediate transmission by HTTP of the complete source code of your modified version or other derivative work.
It means that you must actually keep a link not to original author site, but to some place where you may find the sources. No other obligation is specified, and in particular, there's nowhere specified you must conserve any attribution mention.
Are you sure that such a clause is compatible with the AGPL license, which may not be modified ? and more generally, what about its compatibility free software licenses and principles ?
Fot the article, do you suggest to indicate AGPL licence, or CMSimple personnal licence ?
Thanks for your attention,
Cordially,
La notice est en cours de réalisation.
En ce qui concerne le texte a envoyer à l'auteur du logiciel, on est bien d'accord, c'est celui en citation ? (j'ai remplacé le " Framasoft.org community supporter" par "framasoft.org team"
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