"Tim Shephard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you have a client-server application and GPL the client but it has > a very broad and very tight protocol coupling with a backend server > that is closed source .. is that really GPL? > > One example of this is Second Life, where the client speaks a very fat > protocol against a backend server which is closed source and highly > patented.
>From a practical perspective, I'm sure many people would like to hack on and modify a 2nd-life client, so a GPL client would be a genuinely useful thing. -Miles -- If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten. [George Carlin] _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
