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Posted Sep 24, 2005 20:20 UTC (Sat) by peschmae (guest, #32292)
In reply to: by job Parent article: RMS: The GNU GPL Is Here to Stay (O'ReillyNet)
I don't think the idea *ever* came up to force people to publish their software under the GPL only because they are running on Linux (or another GPLed system).
What they are talking about is a web service being based on a GPL 3.0ed web service and that this modified code (based on GPL 3.0 code) should be available under the terms of GPL 3.0 to users of this web service as well.
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Posted Sep 25, 2005 13:00 UTC (Sun) by job (subscriber, #670) [Link] You fail to see the problem. Google is a big application and parts of it, such as the GoogleFS which was published in an article, probably runs in the kernel. That makes it a "derived work". (Most probably. Exactly what constitutes a derived work will be the point of many flame wars.) This currently doesn't matter because they are clearly not distributing anything. Closing the ASP loophole may have lots of unforeseen consequences such as this one.
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