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Re: Selling services using GPLed software
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David Golden |
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Re: Selling services using GPLed software |
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Tue, 13 May 2008 20:02:21 +0100 |
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Nikola Skoric wrote:
> It seems to me that only case in which you are obligated to provide
> sorce code is if you are distributing your application. But, what
> about web apps with which you can make money without distributing
> them. For instance, www.conquerclub.com is developed around phpBB3,
> and www.travian.com is developed around phpBB2. And both of them are
> making money with their software, but they do not provide their source
> code. Is there any part of GPL forbidding that?
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No. The "Affero GPL" [1] (see section 13) is an attempt to address some
people's concerns in that area, but is a different license to the GPL
proper.
[1] http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/agpl-3.0.html