Re: Linux and GPLv2
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Jeremy Hankins wrote:
> Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> writes:
> > Could you please elaborate on the "PHP loophole"? I've never heard of
> > it: what do you mean by that?
>
> It's the whole web-as-platform idea.
This is commonly refered to as the "ASP[1] loophole" not the "PHP
loophole" for the obvious reasons that the former describes the actual
problem, whereas the latter is just a language that isn't restricted
to usage by ASPs.
Search for affero and asp loophole from somewhere around 2003 on
-legal if you want more information on why closing this loophole is
probably not possible to do in a free manner.
Don Armstrong
1: Where ASP is application service provider.
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