On Friday, 16 October 2015 at 12:53:09 UTC, Steven Schveighoffer
wrote:
Yes, you can. GPL only affects distribution of executables to
third
party, it doesn't affect services. Maybe you are thinking of
AGPL, which
also affects services. But even AGPL allows internal usage.
No, you cannot link against GPL library without making your
code also GPL. "Services" I don't think have anything to do
with this, we are talking about binary linking.
There was something called the "server loophole." The language of
GPLv2 only requires source to be distributed if the binaries are
distributed. The Affero GPL was created to close the loophole,
requiring source to be made available even if the binaries aren't
distributed. IIRC, GPLv3 requires the same.
