[2Gkashmiri]

would you people be interested in opening up the api to connect to third party softwares? i have [gnukhata](https://gnukhata.org/) which is AGPL licensed accounting software and this would be great synergy between local hardware and software.

[robertlagrant]

Genuine question: would this software also have to become AGPL licenced, if it's connecting over a network?

[2Gkashmiri]

Nope. Thats never the case. you'd just open an api which hopefully the devs will make a connector for.

[robertlagrant]

Sorry - what does "open an API mean"?

[2Gkashmiri]

What I mean is, how would your device send data to a software? Open an api meant this interaction from hardware to mobile or computer is documented somwhere with all parameters and auth tokens and such.

[robertlagrant]

As in call an API via IPC of some sort, e.g. HTTP? I thought that AGPL meant that the copyleftness of the licence would survive that.