linux guy wrote: > Has the cronometer provided broken the rules of the GPL by enhancing > it and turning it into a web application and not providing the course > code back to the user base ? > > If so, where and how should this be reported ?
The generally accepted answer (including by the FSF) is no: if they’re just providing their enhanced version as a web application on their own servers, they aren’t exactly distributing the program, so the source code doesn’t need to be made available. The Affero GPL is a variant of the GPL which explicitly requires that the source code to the web application *is* made available to its users. See also http://www.gnu.org/licenses/why-affero-gpl.html (note that this talks about version 3 of both the GNU GPL and the Affero GPL, but there is also a version 2 of the Affero GPL which is a modified version of the GNU GPL version 2). Hope this helps, James. -- E-mail: james@ | 'Short for "Sic Transit Gloria Humanorum", which is Latin aprilcottage.co.uk | for "There goes the neighbourhood!"' | -- Menno Willemse -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
