Cédric Krier schrieb:

>> Let's imagine a SaaS-Provider implementing a complete adoption to German
>> requirements. This provider has put quite some effort into his extension
>> modules and offers services to small and medium companies. As programs
>> like Lexware or Sage show, many of these companies are quite happy even
>> with a fixed function set like in this case.
>>
>> Such a company will not contribute the code, since these extensions /
>> adoptions are the asset. This is what makes up the business case.
> 
> GPL or AGPL does never constrain to contribute the code. It gives just some
> rights to the user.

That's what I'm talking about: Giving the user the right to get the
source of Tryton-as-a-Service -- including all the additions the
Taas-Provider has implemented.

> In the AGPL, it is question to give an url to fetch the running code.
> And what about custom code that you don't want to publish?
> And what about a patch that is applied not yet released?
> ...

This is only a problem when providing Tryton-as-a-Service. From my point
of view, there is no need to publish anything if Tryton is used within a
company.

But let my try to modify the original question a bit:

Is this okay for b2ck: Some company offers paid Tryton-as-a-Service
while not publishing their own extensions and not contributing to the
Tryton project in any way.

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