All,

SaaS, or "Software as a service" is a software delivery model where an
organization develops a product, and makes it available only as a hosted
solution.  Examples of this are Google Mail, eBay, Salesforce.com, and
thousands of others.  Is there any legal precident regarding the GPL and
SaaS delivery models?  The GPL stipulates that if you *distribute* software
that is based on GPL code, you need to release the changes (I dont pretend
to know the full ramifications, or the official definition), however as I
understand it, SaaS is never actually *distributed*.

Thoughts?

Stan

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