In gnu.misc.discuss Tim Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > 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? None at all, assuming what the SOAP server is offering is bona-fide well defined services. > 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? -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
