I am not a lawyer this is not legal advice -- I will put this at the top of every post :)
On May 7, 10:00 pm, Matthew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quick scenario. Most of the FarCry installs that I'll do will likely be > to a shared server that is owned by the person that contracted me out as > a developer. The owner hosts the sites to the customers that he > contracts to. I have created my FarCry site on this server with the > presumption being we'll be adding more clients as time goes on. If we > provide the source code to the end customer, would this satisfy the > wording of the GPL? That would seem satisfy making the programs changes > available to the end users. If that's what it would take to comply with > the license, that doesn't seem to be as big a deal as releasing the > source into the entirety of the public domain. Firstly, if the client purchased a Commercial license they'd have no headaches, and any other options attached to the license such as support and prioritised bug fixing etc. But if they want to go GPL all the way then my understanding is that as long as their modifications are private to the one organisation, they are not obliged to do anything. Even if their application is hosted. Its worth noting that GPL FAQ has an odd clause about not being able to rent a GPL application as it imposes an additional restriction -- however, your client might simply be offering paid hosting and a free application ;) -- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
