Posted Sep 25, 2005 13:00 UTC (Sun) by job (subscriber, #670)
In reply to: by peschmae
Parent article: RMS: The GNU GPL Is Here to Stay (O'ReillyNet)

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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