Post Syndicated from Bradley M. Kuhn original http://ebb.org/bkuhn/blog/2008/12/01/agpl-dfsg-free.html

Late last week, the FTP Masters of Debian — who, absent a vote of
the Debian developers, make all licensing decisions —
posted
their ruling that AGPLv3 is DFSG-Free. I was glad to see this issue
was finally resolved after months of confusion;
the AGPLv3
is now approved by all known FLOSS licensing ruling bodies (FSF, OSI,
and Debian).

It was somewhat fitting that the AGPLv3 was approved by Debian within a
week of the one year anniversary
of AGPLv3’s
release. This year of AGPLv3 has shown very rapid adoption of the
AGPL. Even conservative numbers show an adoption rate of 15 projects
per month. I expect the numbers to continue a steady, linear climb as
developers begin to realize that the AGPL is the “copyleft of the
Cloud”.