Stanley Brinkerhoff <[email protected]> writes: > 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?
See the Affero GPL, and the "ASP loophole". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_gpl -- ...jsled http://asynchronous.org/ - a=jsled; b=asynchronous.org; echo $...@${b}
