Jakob Petsovits skrev:
On Monday, 10. September 2007, J-P Stacey wrote:
However, the virality stops at certain boundaries, doesn't it? If not, then:
* How does Cygwin survive, translating the calls of potentially GPL programs to the language of the wholeheartedly un-GPL OS it sits in? By extension, how does any GPL program conscience working on Windows (by which I don't mean morally....)? How can something like Automatix work, sprinkling software of all sorts of licences like fairy dust through your Ubuntu box?
* How can you build GPL webservice clients, and would their use in requesting data or processing from a non-GPLed webservice count as licence infringement? What would a GPLed webservice even look like? Richard Stallman, I think, is on record as saying that the proprietary nature of services such as Amazon's doesn't bother him, but it bothers other people.
* How does networking software not transmit the GPL in its very packets, when it lets proprietary and GPL software communicate and potentially share processing?
I don't want to be rude, but all of these questions have already been answered in this thread. Before another well-explained, but extensive Thomas Barregren mail is coming up again, I suggest you look it up by yourself.
Lol. I should perhaps "rest my case". :-)
Yeah, I know it's daunting to read and understand all of this thread, it's too large already.
The easiest way to see the whole thread, which currently consists of 198 messages, is by Nabble: * http://www.nabble.com/Modules-that-integrate-non-GPL-PHP-apps-violate-the-GP... If you prefer the "official" mailing archive, you have to jump around a little: * http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2007-08/threads.html#00568 * http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2007-09/threads.html#00000 * http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2007-09/threads.html#00025 * http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2007-09/threads.html#00082 * http://lists.drupal.org/archives/development/2007-09/threads.html#00200 Best regards, Thomas