On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 03:52:20PM +0100, Samuel Liddicott wrote:
I suppose the original question was not clear:
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 22:22, Jerome Alet wrote:
say some company (A) enhances your software, install the new combined product on a server appliance, and put the server appliance at a third party company (B, its client), but DOESN'T SELL the server appliance to B. Instead of selling it, A is still the full owner of server appliance, which is installed at B's location only as part of a support contract.
I read this as B is co-locating the server on behalf of A, B taking the role of ISP.
you read this incorrectly then, but english is not my native language, sorry
I agree, if B is the customer and actually using the service provided by A that this counts as a distribution.
That's what I wanted to be sure of.
In my case B really is the final customer. B doesn't rent the server appliance per se, B has bought a support contract from A for the "enhanced" GPLed software. As part of the contract, A puts the server's at B's location, and B uses the software on A's server.
If A does co-locate the service at B's facilites with a support contract from B but B is NOT using the services from A, but A has some independant customers C, who use the service on the computer hosted at B; does this count as distribution?
This is not what I asked, but this is interesting too :-)
bye, and thanks again to all
Jerome Alet