GPL and text

Posted Jul 9, 2010 0:30 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: GPL and text by TRS-80
Parent article: Two GCC stories

One thing to bear in mind - iirc javascript is interpreted, no?

I'd need to re-read the GPL to be sure, but if you distribute AS SOURCE, which a java-script scriptlet is, most of the nasty stuff in the GPL doesn't apply.

So you MIGHT find that you can include large chunks of javascript in your web-page and it falls under "mere aggregation", not contaminating anything else.

But IANAL, YMMV etc etc.

TTFN
Wol

GPL and text

Posted Jul 9, 2010 6:53 UTC (Fri) by paulj (subscriber, #341) [Link]

The GPL requires that source be distributed in its preferred form (i.e. the original source). So if you took some GPLed Javascript work, then ran it through an obfuscator before redistributing it in web-pages, then you'd be in breach of the licence.