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. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen, // Bye, Patrick Cornelißen http://www.openprojectguide.org http://www.pcornelissen.de http://code.google.com/p/gloudy/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en.
