Hiya,
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I'm not entirely clear on the introduction of "propagation", though. What do
they mean when the say: "It appears that the FSF is subtly expanding the
scope of the license and trying to cover some areas that were not explicitly
covered by the GPLv2, and abused by some parties."
Is this a reference to the problem of web sites using GPL-licensed code like a
CMS? What other cases does it cover?
Perhaps other non-direct usage, through VNC, maybe even connecting to a
GPL'd SMTP server..?
Plugging the dynamic linking gap at last. Although it is pretty easy to
define an alternative interface to a software dynamic link. Anyone who
really wants to use a GPL'd program could just write a GPL'd interface
program binary, which accepts commands from a pipe, and then their
proprietary software can utilise the program via the pipe. They could
even just output there data to a file, and have a program binary crunch
through it, then read back in the results.
I have a query Re the patent clause, does this mean that as soon as Sun
run some GPLv3'd software and make it available that everyone has a
licence to the patents it builds upon?
Kind regards
JG
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