On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 06:44:50PM +0600, Grendel wrote: > On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Jason Stubbs uttered the following immortal words, > > > I don't believe this is true, either. As far as I know, a closed source app > > only has to open up its source if it is distributed. From what I can tell, > > there are no provisions in the GPL for a company to link against, rewrite or > > do anything else they wish with GPL'd code if it is not redistributed. > > Since 99.9% of apps are written to be distributed, the above issue does > not have any practical benefit.
Where _did_ you get that 99.9% figure from? It's my understanding that more software gets written in house for use within the company than for distribution. So for GPLd software that doesn't get distributed you can modify it to your heart's content and keep your business logic and whatnot safe. -- David Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
