Ghost stories

[Aaron Bentley]

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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".

I suspect that adding the "Affero" clause would have induced grave
backwards-compatibility concerns, since the first two versions did not
have it.  Of course, the first two versions were released before web
applications were a significant phenomenon.

Aaron
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