Re: GPL clients for non-free services

2003-03-13 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:19:32PM -0500, Joe Moore wrote: > The paragraph above is the result of the logic: > 1. linking -> combined work > 2. dynamic linking -> linking > 3. dynamic linking over network (RPC) -> dynamic linking > 4. network service -> dynamic linking over network Note that these

Re: GPL clients for non-free services

2003-03-13 Thread Joe Moore
Mark Rafn said: > On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Steve Langasek wrote: >> So the requirement here is that if the RPC service is part >> of the source code, you MUST ship the server, or not ship anything at >> all. > > Huh? I'm missing that paragraph in my copy of GPLv2. You can't ship > the server and the

Re: GPL clients for non-free services

2003-03-13 Thread Mark Rafn
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, Steve Langasek wrote: > Ah, but if you're shipping binaries of someone *else's* GPL code, the > requirement is that you must provide "the complete corresponding > machine-readable source code", which includes "all the source code for > all modules it contains The client does

Re: GPL clients for non-free services

2003-03-13 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 12:08:12PM -0800, Mark Rafn wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:02:23AM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: > > > and you're starting to say that the GPL denies you the right to look > > > at http://www.microsoft.com with a free web browser, or > > > http://www.fsf.org > > > w

GPL clients for non-free services

2003-03-12 Thread Mark Rafn
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:02:23AM -0800, Terry Hancock wrote: > > and you're starting to say that the GPL denies you the right to look > > at http://www.microsoft.com with a free web browser, or http://www.fsf.org > > with IE. On Wed, 12 Mar 2003, Steve Langasek wrote: > The main point to co