On Thu, Dec 22, 2011, at 01:34 PM, Rick Moen wrote: > You know, Clark: Speaking for myself, I have no interest > in advising querents about how closely they can lawfully > skirt the requirements of copyleft licences, or how they > can creatively circumvent those requirements entirely, in > order to use copylefted properties in proprietary works. > > You keep asking basically the same question, but are seeing > scant interest in helping you. Might be that my view is common.
Your characterization is wholly inaccurate, although I could see how you might arrive at this conclusion. My objective by asking this question is to determine if the GPL is an appropriate license for our consulting organization to release suite of tools and programs that are currently bundled with our services. I have some doubts since there seems to be a general consensus that you can easily use WebAPIs to evade the GPLv2. Our general application would be similar to Chris Travers' accounting application, and the case I'm concerned about would be very similar to what I posted in my follow-up. That is, could a competitor submit a set of hooks/menus as a "derived work" and effectively shield proprietary functionality via a WebAPI? I later found Chris Kleisath's blog post that implies that Sybase uses a similar technique. I'm asking, openly, what people's public opinion on this matter is. I'm not asking for advice about how I could incorporate GPL licensed material into a proprietary work. Best, Clark _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
