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> Say the AGPL web server we find online comes with code that adds a link to download a tarball of its source code at the bottom of every webpage. And say that
by yellowapple 6y ago
> Say the AGPL web server we find online comes with code that adds a link to download a tarball of its source code at the bottom of every webpage. And say that tarball ticks all the boxes of the to-do list in the network copyleft paragraph of section 13. Say I don’t like offering visitors the source code to my blog. I can modify the program to remove the code that adds those links and serves those tarballs.
Seems like you wouldn't even need to do this much, no? It should be possible to "unquine" such a program with any ol' proxy that:
1. Blocks whichever URLs are used to obtain copies of the source code, and optionally
2. Edits the page HTML in-flight to remove links to those blocked URLs
Step 2 obviously assumes that the HTML itself is not the program's code - i.e. the same assumption by which we don't need to subject ODF documents to the GPL just because LibreOffice or whatever is GPL'd.