The GPL is all about giving rights to individual users of your program, not the world in general. It does so by turning copyright upside down, instead of restri

The GPL is all about giving rights to individual users of your program, not the world in general. It does so by turning copyright upside down, instead of restricting rights it grants rights (it’s like the opposite of those FBI warnings you get on DVD-discs) to those, and only those, who you give a copy of the program to. But that is all. It works exactly like copyright in that regard. To be subject to it you need to have received a copy of program. So no, running the program in the cloud is not distribution.