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[Shot (Piotr Szotkowski)]

Andrew Zajac:

> The question is whether Canoncal is being a good citizen
> by not distributing the code under a GPL-compatible licence

Just for the record: GPL (in its current form) is quite useless when
it comes to web applications; anyone can take a GPL-ed app, modify it
and expose to the outer world without providing the source changes, as
exposing a webservice is not considered ‘distributing binaries’. That’s
why there’s AGPL (sadly, it’s not GPL-compatible until GPLv3 shows up):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License

-- Shot
-- 
Debian is old-school Linux, from a time when
'user-friendly' was an insult.   -- troutgirl
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