This does not change the overall license of the git-annex program, which
was already AGPL due to a number of sources files being AGPL already.
Legally speaking, I'm adding a new license under which these files are
now available; I already released their current contents under the GPL
license. Now they're dual licensed GPL and AGPL. However, I intend
for all my future changes to these files to only be released under the
AGPL license, and I won't be tracking the dual licensing status, so I'm
simply changing the license statement to say it's AGPL.
(In some cases, others wrote parts of the code of a file and released it
under the GPL; but in all cases I have contributed a significant portion
of the code in each file and it's that code that is getting the AGPL
license; the GPL license of other contributors allows combining with
AGPL code.)
Note that I ran into a problem where parsing the global options looped
forever, eating memory. It was somehow caused by stacking
combineGlobalSetters inside a combineGlobalSetters. Maybe due to both
using "many"? Anyway, changed things to avoid that.
Motivation: Hook scripts for nautilus or other file managers
need to provide the user with feedback that a file is being downloaded.
This commit was sponsored by THM Schoemaker.