Re: Web application licenses

[Brian Thomas Sniffen <bts@alum.mit.edu>]

Ken Arromdee <arromdee@rahul.net> writes:

> On Tue, 17 Aug 2004, Brian Thomas Sniffen wrote:
>> I don't interact with Postfix.  I also don't interact with the
>> kernel.  I interact with things that interact with those -- Gnus, and 
>> Emacs, for example.  But many of the commands I run don't give me any
>> output; they just change the state of the world in some way.  Often,
>> those ways are not perceivable to me.
>
> I don't interact with a web application.  I interact with a browser....

Exactly.  This is one reason why a license that said "if you modify
Apache and run it so that others can use it, you must offer them the
source" is not Free.

-Brian

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Brian Sniffen                                       bts@alum.mit.edu