GPL issue at my work place
Matthew Flaschen
matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Jan 18 21:30:17 UTC 2008
Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
> The conclusion FSF wants
> to arrive at is that hosting the site on the CMS amounts to
> distribution of the CMS; but the copyright in the contents held by the
> CMS are still owned by you.
That's not true. Providing a CMS SaaS platform is /not/ distribution of
the CMS, and is not covered by the GPL; the FSF has explicitly agreed
with this. The GNU Affero GPL is an entirely different issue, and
distribution probably would be required under it.
Matt Flaschen
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