On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:50:44 pm Peter Bienstman wrote: > On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:36:41 pm Gwern Branwen wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 5, 2009 at 6:30 AM, rbuc<[email protected]> wrote: > > > I'm in the process of creating a website where I'd like to use a > > > spaced repetition algorithm. I would like to use the mnemosyne > > > algorithm for its simplicity and the possibility to contribute to > > > research. The problem is that I don't like to license my other code > > > under a GPL license which I'd have to do. > > > > Actually, that's not true. If you're running a website or a 'software > > as a service' thing, then like Google you can get away with not > > releasing anything whatsoever. The GPL explicitly allows this. If > > Mnemosyne were under the Affero GPL, then it'd be a different story... > > Hmm, perhaps it should look into the Affero GPL for the 2.x code base then. > > Peter
Note that I don't have any problem with people running libmnemosyne 2.0 as a webservice and charging users for the hosting costs, etc. It's just that if they make modifications/improvements to the Mnemosyne codebase, I'd like these to be freely available. What I don't know is e.g. if you would rut Mnemosyne together as a component of a bigger site like Chinesepod, e.g.. Would the Affero licence then require all of the Chinesepod code to become publicly available? I don't want to go that far. Any legal advice here? Peter --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mnemosyne-proj-users" 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/mnemosyne-proj-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
