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Understand that this is not a radical change to GPLv2Understand that this is not a radical change to GPLv2Posted Sep 26, 2006 12:53 UTC (Tue) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022)In reply to: Just a question about the GPLv3. by error27 Parent article: Some GPLv3 clarifications from the FSF
If you have a GPL app, you must provide the source to it anyways. By "have", I am assuming that you mean authorship or maintainership. This has always been the case. All the Affero-option does is give people who run your program the ability to link directly to the source so that even usage of your fine program becomes an opportunity to distribute and create additional developer interest. Now, instead of merely giving source to anyone who downloads your program from your site, any end-user is also able to become aware of exactly what they're running, and run it themselves. Also, any user of your online application can audit your code.
Who doesn't want that? It's GPL Free software. You're putting it out there. What are you afraid of here?
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