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There's a lesson there then, isn't there? Use GPL
by andrepd 5mo ago
There's a lesson there then, isn't there? Use GPL
- jlokier 5mo agoThe GPL has no effect on this issue. For service providers like AWS, who provide the service not the software, the GPL doesn't require them to do anything differently than with more permissive licenses.
- somenameforme 5mo ago++ I think the GPL has become somewhat obsolete because of this causing it create to completely nonsensical scenarios. For instance I can't comply with the GPL and add vanilla Stockfish (the currently strongest chess engine, licensed under GPL) to a chess app released on the Apple store, yet somebody can slightly modify the engine, keep all those modifications proprietary, and sell access to the engine on the same App store, without source access, so long as the computer is done through a middle-man server instead of being done locally. The GPL no longer suffices to maintain the spirit of intent of the GPL. Like a peer comment mentioned it seems (??) that AGPL is their update to resolve this.
- pocksuppet 5mo agoSome courts [which?] have read things into open source licenses that aren't actually there, usually on the side of the user because that's obviously what the people who wrote the licenses intended. It's not impossible that GPL could force Amazon to give out their software.
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- andrepd 5mo agoAGPL, it is implied.
- dmantis 5mo agoAGPLv3 does.
- temp8830 5mo ago*AGPL
- pocksuppet 5mo agoUse AGPL or SSPL or make a better worded version of SSPL