[Web4lib] Koha

[Cary Gordon]

I surmise that the thinking is that hosted services do not constitute
a distribution.

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 3:13 AM, Nicole Engard <nengard at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 12:06 AM, Cary Gordon <listuser at chillco.com> wrote:
>> Hi Nicole,
>>
>> If they only offer this code as a hosted service, it isn't really a
>> loophole, inasmuch as I do not think that it was an oversight. I offer
>> a hosted version of Drupal for libraries (LibrarySite), and if I
>> wanted to fork Drupal Core and call it my own, it would be permissible
>> under GPLv2. My friends and possibly my dog would abandon me, but it
>> would be legal.
>
> Hehe, that is too cute ;) Anyway, seems like a loophole to me, or at
> least not in the nature of the GPL to not include the code in the
> distribution, which is where all the anger is coming from (like it
> would from your dogs) :)
>
> Nicole
>



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Cary Gordon
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