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GPL and text

GPL and text

Posted Jul 2, 2010 18:07 UTC (Fri) by southey (guest, #9466)
In reply to: GPL and text by TRS-80
Parent article: Two GCC stories

Speaking of GPL and text, what happens when you include GPL JavaScript code in a webpage?
Hopefully it works as intended.

Must the rest of the page also be licensed under the GPL?
If you are not distributing that code then the GPL terms do not apply so an answer is no. But the sore point is that some people consider serving/accessing a web page as redistribution (very gray area since both sides have valid arguments). So it may be a different story with the GNU Affero General Public License!

If you are distributing the web page including GPL code as say downloadable file or in some package then you must follow the GPL regarding bundling software packages together.

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GPL and text

Posted Jul 3, 2010 0:57 UTC (Sat) by dvdeug (subscriber, #10998) [Link]

I'm not familiar with any controversy; if you send someone a webpage, whether by HTTP or email or printed out and mailed, you have to follow the licenses for the material that you're sending them. It's distribution. The Affero license is all about code that runs on the server and creates the webpage, not code that you send to the end user.


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