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by tecleandor 924 days ago
You're both kinda correct.

What Stephane was complaining about is the whole Snap package for lxd has been marked as AGPL, and that's not correct.

Check in the store, down, in the license info section:

https://snapcraft.io/lxd

Edit: also, from what I see in the commit, it doesn't make much distinction between what's AGPL and what not. https://github.com/canonical/lxd/pull/12663/commits/b8ff449d...
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headhasthoughts 924 days ago
It is correct; the binary is AGPL, and Snap is a binary distribution method.
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NewJazz 924 days ago
Nope, the binary is under both licenses. Just because they are compatible doesn't mean you can ignore the terms of one of them.
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notpushkin 924 days ago
I sometimes “editorialize” license names for Lunni Marketplace, too. [1]

I think it’s fine: the binary is under both licenses, but one requires you to publish a notice and the other requires you to publish a notice and all source code for both parts. Since you want to know what “license burden” you’ll have to bear when you’re looking for an app in a distribution platform like this, I think it’s fair to just specify the more restrictive license.

(IANAL)

[1]: https://lunni.dev/docs/marketplace/

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