On 12/01/2008, Lee Braiden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Jon, > > On Saturday 12 January 2008 20:45:33 Jon Grant wrote: > > If i go into a web-cafe and go online and use Firefox on KDE desktop > > is anyone obliged to offer me the source code? I've only rented 15mins > > of online time afterall. > > They have distributed the software to the public-facing machine, so it's much > the same as any other distribution to the public, I think.
The user of a computer can be different to person who owns the computer. The owner is the recipient of the software distributed under the GPL. > The Affero license would make this a requirement even if you're providing that > software remotely over the web, as I understand things. So, if you even gave > someone access to Firefox through a remote desktop connection, you would be > obliged to provide them with the source code.... if my position is correct ;) Yes, Affero is for network apps, not just web apps. And you'd be obliged to provide _an offer_ of source code. -- Regards, Dave _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
