[ale] google and gpl

Jim Kinney jim.kinney at gmail.com
Wed Nov 19 16:53:02 EST 2008


Thanks for the clarification, Michael. Another reason I'm not a lawyer...

On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:29 PM, Michael Hirsch <mdhirsch at gmail.com> wrote:

> 2008/11/19 Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com>:
> > I thought the gpl3 closed the asp loophole. Maybe it was a very early
> draft
> > version that has since been modified.
>
> No, GPLv3 closes the Tivo looophole.  With GPLv3 it doesn't suffice to
> offer your users the source code, you have to tell them how to replace
> the GPLed code with a new version.
>
> Michael
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