Re: [gNewSense-users] Launchpad licensed under AGPL v3.0: Consequences for gNS?

[Eric Morey]

On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 05:25 +0500, Nicodemo Alvaro wrote:

> I've heard that Launchpad has the license notice AGPL v3, as in not
> your option to use a later version.
> 

Yes, you are correct. See the license file on the current stable branch:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/l7jdhc

> I've  had problems retrieving the source code, because they are using
> a newer version of bazaar, which is incompatible with my version 1.3.
> Canonical claims their code to be written with Hardy and Jaunty, but I
> could find no other bzr version in their package lists or gNewSense
> deltah.
> 
> https://dev.launchpad.net/Getting
> 

You may have missed from https://dev.launchpad.net/Getting:

> Note that right now, Launchpad can only be built and run on Ubuntu
> (8.04 "Hardy" to 9.04 "Jaunty")...
> //Overview//
> 
> ...Launchpad's branches are hosted in Bazaar [1], using the most
> up-to-date repository format available. That means you'll need to use
> at least Bazaar 1.16.1 [2] to get Launchpad -- and please consider
> using 1.17 [3], which has just been released. Packages are also
> available in the Bazaar PPA[4] 
> 
> The source tree is about 150Mb, although the total size of the
> repository you'll download is about 280Mb, as you're getting the full
> history with it. 
> 
> //Alternative Sourcecode Download//
> To get started quickly, you can download a copy of the sourcecode,
> with history, from here [5]. (It's the launchpad.tar.gz file).
>  
> The source tree is about 150Mb, although the total size of the
> repository you'll download is about 280Mb, as you're getting the full
> history with it.
> 
> [1] http://bazaar-vcs.org/
> [2] http://bazaar-vcs.org/Download
> [3] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/bazaar/2009q3/060691.html
> [4] https://launchpad.net/~bzr/+archive/ppa
> [5] http://people.canonical.com/~herb/