In article <[email protected]>, Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote: > > Another example is XMLRPC (or SOAP or other similar technoloties) in > > which a function is called via network request on a distributed system. > > Some believe that this is covered by the GPL, others believe it isn't. > > I'll assume that by "this" you mean the invocation of a GPL licensed > function over a network, or a GPL licensed program invoking something > over a network. > > The GPL doesn't differentiate between calling technoloties. It's _what_ > gets called that matters, not the technoloty by which it gets called; > whether the thing getting called is a program independent of what's > calling it, or is really part of it. The same applies to functionality
Suppose someone has a SOAP server, with a publicly defined interface. I write code that calls a service on that SOAP server. What copyright right of the server code author have I potentially infringed? I'm not copying, distributing, or making a derivative work of any of his server code, so why do I care about whatever copyright license the server code is under? -- --Tim Smith _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
