I sincerely hope that the FSF takes a very cautious approach to the "ASP loophole". While I do agree with the above assertment that VNC-style remote GUI of an application is an effective way around the redistribution rights of the GPL, I do also realise that Google can't be expected to release the source of their software just because they run it on Linux.

I also don't think the problem of web apps is as big as the problem of locking in the users data in the web apps colocation centres. What good is it to have access to all these free software to manipulate your data when you don't have your own data in the first place? This is however far beyond the scope of the GNU project and can most probably not be addressed by licensing.

More pressing are the patent clauses that are starting to appear in other licenses such as Apache's. They may be a good idea, I am not really qualified to say, but that is creates an incompatibility with the GPL is somewhat unnecessary and should be fixed.