On Wednesday 16 Jul 2008, Viksit Gaur wrote: > --- On Fri, 7/11/08, Raj Mathur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Topics that may be interesting to discuss include: > > > > - RPC/SOAP/equivalents > > Hmm, why did you classify RPC/SOAP as a separate category for this > discussion? I'd have assumed it falls in with web services and the > like?
Web services are where you use some (modified) GPL software to provide a web-based service to users. The GPL doesn't oblige you to provide the source of the software to your users then; other licences like the Affero GPL are more relevant in that situation. RPC issues crop up when someone uses a GPL library. If she links her code directly with the library she would have to release her code under the GPL too; instead what she does is create a GPL wrapper around the library and then have her application invoke the library methods as RPC, thereby bypassing the GPLv2 requirement to GPL her application too. Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
