Re: [Chicken-users] Eggs and licensing?

[Peter Wright]

Replying to myself again (sigh :)), but I ran across an interesting
article about this specific issue:

http://www.linux-mag.com/id/3017/

"The GPL Has No (Networked) Future"

Relevant snippet:

> That dovetails rather well with the notion of "ethical software" as
> defined by Richard Stallman and, in fact, the FSF supported the
> creation of the Affero GPL and attempted to integrate it into the
> early drafts of the GPL3. However, that plan backfired and the FSF not
> only struck the text that would extend the GPL to software delivered
> as a service but clarified just what "to 'convey' a work" actually
> means.
> 
>   Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no
>   transfer of a copy, is not conveying. 
> 
> In other words, software delivered as service is now officially
> not covered by the GPL.

Useful to know - I hadn't realised that they'd officially clarified
this in GPLv3.


Pete.
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