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Hi. <br><br>Wanted to complete my earlier thread "protecting an Innovation from unlicensed abuse by a rival commercial 3rd partyþ". Thanks to all who replied in this complex matter back then, helped me a
lot. Our plan of action is most likely going to be to patent the Innovation, and then be able to release products containing it as open source (under tri-licensing option where non-commercial users are separated from regular commercial clients and especially from commercial rivals, with prevention to use in act for the latter group only). <br><br>I have one more question: As mentioned in that thread, our innovation can be implemented using the AGPL covered software without modifying the source code, i.e. using the methods in their standard distribution in a certain way known only to me. Can someone confirm to us what that license says about <i>copylefting </i>methods that only "use the GPL software" in a 'smart' way ? (as opposed to what we know that it explicitly specifies that any modification of source code to be copylefted). Are we liable to document this method of using in the Software+ distribution ?<br><br>best, Harri <br /><hr />Hotmail: Trusted email with powerful SPAM protection. <a href='https://signup.live.com/signup.aspx?id=60969' target='_new'>Sign up now.</a></body>
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