possible gpl violation by webshop xt:commerce

Alex Hudson home at alexhudson.com
Sat Jan 21 16:46:40 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 17:06 +0100, Andreas K. Foerster wrote:
> > Now, if you purchase it and they withhold the proper source, that would
> > be a violation.
> 
> Yes, but as far as I can see, it is written in PHP - so it is not
> binary code anyway.

No, but for example if they ran it through an obfuscator, that would not
count as the source for the purposes of the GPL yet it would still run.

I'm pretty sure that has been tried before.

Cheers,

Alex.




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