On Thursday, Aug 7, 2003, at 06:51 US/Eastern, MJ Ray wrote:
It is expected that GPL-3 will contain something similar to the Affero
GPL
requirement for remote services to offer users the code. Do you object
to that? If so, why?
Depending on exactly what it is, probably. For example, if I were to
use a (hypothetical) GPLv3-covered firewall, would I have to offer my
firewall code --- rules and all, gotta have complete source --- for
download, just because it routed the packets?
I could maybe be convinced to call it OK for some very limited
circumstances involving highly-integrated network applications. I, in
general, have a problem with requiring me to distribute source when
I've never done any copying, distributing, etc.
The only thing I've done is private modifications, which could very
likely not require copyright licenses to do anyway (they could be fair
use).
