On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:06:34 +0100
Dominic Hopf <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am Donnerstag, den 30.12.2010, 11:29 +0100 schrieb Krzysztof
> Żelechowski:
> > Dnia czwartek, 30 grudnia 2010 o 04:53:02 Kete napisał(a):
> > > The GPL seems weird for a webpage to have in its source code because I 
> > > don't 
> > > think of webpages as programs or "software" as the template says. Why is 
> > > the 
> > > GPL used for a webpage? I understand it's good for some of the other 
> > > things 
> > > that people use Geany to make because those are actual programs. Would 
> > > the 
> > > GNU Free Documentation License or a Creative Commons license be more 
> > > applicable for webpages? I think I might make some more templates with 
> > > one of 
> > > these licenses and/or the HTML 5 format.
> > 
> > If a web page contains script, e.g. to write the markup in the browser, the 
> > script might be under GPL as well.
> 
> In that case the AGPL may be better, since it guarantees the source to
> be open. With GPL it would be possible to run a server-side program
> without having the sources public...

GPLv2 yes, GPLv3 is having some progress at this point ;)


Cheers, 
Frank
-- 
Frank Lanitz <[email protected]>

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