For Approval: TURKIX PUBLIC LICENSE

David K. Gasaway dave at gasaway.org
Wed Oct 27 19:35:39 UTC 2004


Emre Sokullu wrote:

> GPL can protect non web based applications to be used freely, but 
 > for the web it is not enough..

Do you mean to say that a service provider cannot charge for a shell 
account that runs CLI GPL software?  Certainly, it can.  There are many 
ways to provide GPL software based services; HTTP access is but one. 
The point is, this perceived "limitation" of the GPL is actually quite 
intentional.

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