Richard Stallman wrote: > I think these issues should be judged by the substance of the > requirement rather than by the legal hook which is used to impose it. > For instance, a requirement to make source available to users is > substantively a requirement of distribution rather than a restriction > on use. > > At present we are planning to try to handle the ASP problem in the GPL > through a limitation on a certain kind of modification--that you can't > delete or disable a command that lets the user download source (if the > program has one to start with). Lawyers we have consulted think that > will work.
Any indication on when this would be available? Emile -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3