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GPL client locked into closed source backend - is this really GPL?
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Tim Shephard |
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GPL client locked into closed source backend - is this really GPL? |
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Sun, 11 Nov 2007 20:24:25 -0800 |
Hi Folks,
If you have a client-server application and GPL the client but it has
a very broad and very tight protocol coupling with a backend server
that is closed source .. is that really GPL?
One example of this is Second Life, where the client speaks a very fat
protocol against a backend server which is closed source and highly
patented.
I am sure there have been other examples though.
Any opinions?
Cheers,
Tim.
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