Hi!

2010/5/6 Geoffrey Spear <[email protected]>:
> That's actually an interesting case, because if you read the App
> Engine terms, you actually do grant Google a license to your software;
> they need one to reproduce the software throughout their cloud to run
> it for you.  The GPL explictly allows you to do this however, as long
> as you have an agreement with them explicitly forbidding them to make
> copies of the portion of the work that's copyrighted outside of their
> relationship with you, which is also part of the App Engine terms.
> You *probably* are required by the GPL to provide to Google, if they
> request it, a copy of any parts of the source that you didn't modify
> yourself, although they're very unlikely to request that you do so
> (and, at least with the Python runtime, you've already provided all of
> your source anyway.)
>
> In any case, the GPL doesn't require that you provide source at all to
> anyone to whom you're not distributing the software.

I see your point and I think an official google statement here would be good.


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