Ghost stories

[Barry Warsaw]

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On Jun 12, 2008, at 4:39 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Aaron Bentley writes:
>
>> If the spirit of the GPL was to provide the "Four Freedoms" to  
>> users of
>> cscvs, then it really depends on whether you consider people who use
>> software through the web to be "users".
>
> If the spirit of the GPL considered people who are receiving software
> services through the web to be users, I suspect that the GPLv3 would
> contain the "Affero" clause, and there would be no "Affero GPL".

Actually, the existence of a separate Affero GPLv3 appears to be a bow  
to practicality over purity:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#SeparateAffero

- -Barry

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