http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html http://www.be.linux.org/pipermail/asbl-libre/2002-March/000138.html
The affero general public licence is trying to extend this to the ASP world. This is an excellent idea to extent Freedom in other specific area where the GNU general public license version 2 is not well suited.
We think that the Affero GPL is a small step to the next GPL version 3.
So we are waiting to change from GPLv2 to GPLv3... ;-)
alx
On 21 Mar 2002, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 00:36, MJ Ray wrote:
I don't like the OAGPL posted elsewhere in this thread. It seems to have problems. Why is the GPL perceived as inadequate for web-based software?
The GNU GPL requires access to the program and the sources. Through a webapp, you never actually use the program, but feed data into the webserver which will run the program and then send you back the results.
So... the user is "using" a GPL program, but has no way to get it's sources.
Hugs, Rui