[Fiware-general-help] I have a question about FIWARE's AGPL 3.0 license.

[Juanjo Hierro]

   No.  As stated by every FIWARE GE that has opted for the AGPL 3.0 
license, software that merely use FIWARE GEs (or derivate versions of 
them) do not need to be released as open source:

    /Please note that software derived as a result of modifying the
    source code of the software in order to fix a bug or incorporate
    enhancements IS considered a derivative work of the product.
    Software that merely uses or aggregates (i.e. links to) an otherwise
    unmodified version of existing software IS NOT considered a
    derivative work./

   And as stated here 
<https://fiware-requirements.readthedocs.io/en/latest/GE_Requirements/#licensing-and-ipr-management> 
in connection to the above paragraph, the following statement is made:

    /The legal opinion paragraph above is aimed at giving users
    confidence they can use FIWARE components even if they have been
    licensed under a copyleft license without this requiring that their
    applications have to be released as open source. /


   I understand that the IoT platform or front-end components connected 
to the smart city platform do not modify the code of the FIWARE GE 
licensed under AGPL 3.0, just simply use it.  Therefore, they are not 
affected.

   What AGPL establishes, though, is that the modifications you may have 
incorporated in the code of FIWARE GEs under AGPL 3.0 need to be made 
publicly available.  But only the code of FIWARE GEs that were modified, 
not the code of other components using the FIWARE GE (like the IoT 
platform or front-end referred above). It would be nice that such 
modifications are not only published but published as contribution to 
the Community open source projects that maintain those GEs, so that the 
Community at large can benefit from those modifications if they are 
considered relevant.

   Cheers,

-- 

Juanjo Hierro
Chief Technology Officer
juanjose.hierro at fiware.org
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On 17/5/22 03:15, 강도훈 wrote:
> Hello
>
> If the source code of FIWARE's smart city platform is modified, should 
> the source code of the legacy platform such as the IoT platform 
> connected to the smart city platform and the source code of the 
> front-end be open to the public as well?
>
> Thanks
>
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