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Google, why not

Google, why not

Posted May 25, 2007 15:09 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091)
In reply to: Google, why not by sepreece
Parent article: A day at the Open Source Business Conference

On second thought, forget about my earlier post. You are right that from the current version of the GPL it follows that you can distribute a program internally, with or without modifications. A change in the FAQ would not mean anything.

The GPL itself would have to be changed a lot to close the "ASP loophole"; for example, distribution of modified copies would have to be coupled to distribution of source code to users. It would be a mess, and maybe it is why they haven't gone that way with GPLv3.


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