From: Phillip Gawlowski Date: 2011-02-09T05:13:53+09:00 Subject: Re: Choosing an office suite On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 10:52 AM, Peter Hickman wrote: > > Ok you are clearly channeling Steve Balmer here. Stop with the bullshit. > > The only requirement to redistribute your source is when you modify > the source and then distribute the resulting product. No, the requirement is to publish *derivative* code. And since the GPL doesn't outline under which circumstances a specific work becomes derivative, with no court cases to clarify the issue, the question is out in the open: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NFUseGPLPlugins Hence the LGPL: It makes clear that using a library doesn't taint *your* code. > If your product is an online service then you are not distributing the > product and there is no requirement to release your source code. The Affero GPL *does* establish such a requirement. > See a lawyer about that. Absolutely. Or use libraries licensed with a non-copyleft license (BSD, MIT, and similar). -- Phillip Gawlowski Though the folk I have met, (Ah, how soon!) they forget When I've moved on to some other place, There may be one or two, When I've played and passed through, Who'll remember my song or my face.