[Gllug] [OT] Selling GPL

Jason Clifford jason at ukfsn.org
Mon Dec 3 18:36:05 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 19:09 +0100, salsaman at xs4all.nl wrote:
> 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.

The extent to which you can control usage with copyright is very limited
and I don't think that is a legitimate control in law.

Jason

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