Re: GPLv3 comedy unfolding -- eWeek: "Is Open Source Dying?"

2007-06-23 Thread Alexander Terekhov
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2148866,00.asp Is Open Source Dying? By Michael Hickins June 21, 2007 Opinion: Some good ideas are too good for this world. Is this one of them? On the face of it, open-source software has been gaining ground of late. The much-anticipated dra

Re: What counts as "distribution"

2007-06-23 Thread David Kastrup
Robert Inder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We will (on their behalf) be installing, on their servers, both GPL > software and the non-GPL software we're writing that relies on it. > Since there are no restrictions on the ways in which GPL and non-GPL > software can be *used* together, I do not thi

What counts as "distribution"

2007-06-23 Thread Robert Inder
This feels like it should be a frequently asked question, but having looked at various guidelines and FAQs, I'm still uncertain. My root question is: what constitutes "distributing" software? Is there a definition somewhere? Here's a specific situation. My company has been approached to write