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The first AGPL compliance case settled in an Italian Court: a tale of compliance, license compatibility and source code availability

Talkat FOSDEM 2021 · on Sunday, 2021-02-07· at 16:00· D.legal· [open-source]

speakers

name:Giovanni Battista Gallus

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name:Fabio Pietrosanti (naif)

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name:Carlo Piana

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name:Alberto Pianon

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resources

video:https://video.fosdem.org/2021/D.legal/agplcompliance.mp4

slides:https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/agplcompliance/attachments/slides/4541/export/events/attachments/agplcompliance/slides/4541/hermes_fosdem2021

summary

A legal-and-practical account of an AGPLv3+ project (Globaleaks) whose prototype was republished by an Italian public authority (ANAC) under the EUPL with attribution changes, GUI notice removal, and incomplete source-code distribution. Describes the dispute resolution reached in court (restoring the AGPL and fixing the issues) and extracts lessons about license compatibility and obligations to convey corresponding source code when public administrations modify or deploy free-software systems.

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