Free Software and Public Performance

[Martin Konold]

On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Mark Koek wrote:

> My feeling is that if you run a GPL'd program off a server you should
> have the same rights as if you'd downloaded it and run it locally.
> 
> That is, if you provide GPL'd software on a server you should make the
> source available. This way, you can still ask money for using the CPU
> time but the users' freedoms are intact.

Well, back then when the GPL was established it was rather common that the
owner of the hw, the system administrator and the final user have all been
different persons.

I do not think that using the software via any kind of interface (either
X11 or WWW) shall entitle the user to get the source.

Regards,
 -- martin

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