<div dir="ltr"><div style>About Java and GPL:</div><div style><br></div><a href="http://www.healthintersections.com.au/?p=1225">http://www.healthintersections.com.au/?p=1225</a><br><div><br></div><div style>Grahame</div><div style>
<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 7:31 AM, MURAKAMI, Keiko <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:a2z@jcom.home.ne.jp" target="_blank">a2z@jcom.home.ne.jp</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Thank you all,<br>
<br>
Our application are made by Java,<br>
so these are not tightly linked GPL libraries,<br>
because GPL libraries are located in another directory,<br>
are referred or dynamic liked at live time.<br>
And we never deliver the application to users,<br>
we run the web application on our side servers,<br>
all users just use our web service.<br>
<br>
I understood that license of our application covered under GPL,<br>
but we need not give every source code to users.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Keiko<br>
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Subject: Re: [License-discuss] Is Web application including GPL libraries<br>
covered under GPL?<br>
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On 12-05-13 08:08, MURAKAMI, Keiko wrote:<br>
> Hi everyone,<br>
><br>
> We've been developing an application on Eclipse Framework with<br>
> libararies covered under LGPL, GPL and Apache licenses.<br>
> These libraries are jxl.jar(LGPL), servlet-api.jar(GPL v2) and<br>
> stepcounter(Apache) and so on.<br>
> When we deliver our application just as Web application, by using but<br>
> not distributing the libraries, should we distribute it under GPL?<br>
> Should we be ready to show the complete source code to any user?<br>
> The application is not static linked.<br>
<br>
Depending on who you ask, linking to servlet-api.jar means you need to<br>
license your web application under the GPL. If you run this web application<br>
on your own servers and users connect to it, you would not be obligated to<br>
give those users the source code, because you are not distributing the web<br>
application to them -- you are merely providing a service.<br>
<br>
If your application makes use of non-trivial chunks of javascript, then be<br>
aware that you are distributing that code to your users. If that javascript<br>
is tightly interwoven with the rest of your web application so as to form a<br>
single creative work, I would argue that you ARE distributing parts of your<br>
web application to your users and should therefore comply with the<br>
conditions of the GPL -- and make the full source code available to those<br>
users.<br>
<br>
I am not a lawyer. I am also not aware of any cases which would provide<br>
some guidance on when client-side and server-side code are sufficiently<br>
entangled to be considered a single creative work.<br>
<br>
-- warp.<br>
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