[Gllug] [OT] Selling GPL

[salsaman at xs4all.nl]

On Mon, December 3, 2007 17:05, Jason Clifford wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 15:47 +0000, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
>
>>  Suppose I decided I didn't want to 'release' some software - I just
>> wanted to host it on a private server and charge people to use it.  Is
>> the rule that if the code is GPL I must release it if requested?
>
> Nothing to do with GPL. You would not be distributing the code. GPL does
> not prevent you running a service using it and charging for that
> service.
>


Not strictly true. If the code is released under the Affero GPL (rather
than the GNU GPL), you would be forced to release the code of your web
service to the users.

Hence the reason why I personally prefer the Affero GPL, and plan to
migrate all my code to it ASAP.


Salsaman.
http://lives.sf.net


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