GPL - possible violation - what should I do?
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
rms at 1407.org
Thu Mar 21 11:07:33 UTC 2002
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 00:36, MJ Ray wrote:
> I don't like the OAGPL posted elsewhere in this thread. It seems to have
> problems. Why is the GPL perceived as inadequate for web-based software?
The GNU GPL requires access to the program and the sources. Through a
webapp, you never actually use the program, but feed data into the
webserver which will run the program and then send you back the results.
So... the user is "using" a GPL program, but has no way to get it's
sources.
Hugs, Rui
--
+ No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
+ Whatever you do will be insignificant,
| but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
+ So let's do it...?
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