Re: Ghostscript licensing changed to AGPL
On Thu, 08 May 2014, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2014, Bálint Réczey wrote:
> > In my interpretation in this case I would have some reasonable time
> > to comply, i.e. I don't have to publish all 0days on my site if I
> > run AGPL-covered software..
You only have to publish code to users who are interacting with that
code. If you're deploying 0 day fixes to the internet, then you're going
to have to provide access to the same code so that other people can take
advantage of your fixes.
> On Wed, 7 May 2014, Clint Byrum wrote:
> > The things that link to ghostscript as a library will now need to be
> > evaluated. If they are contacted via network ports, they'll need to
> > have source download capabilities added.
This is incorrect. They only need to have this in place if they modify
the AGPLed work.
> On Thu, 8 May 2014, Riley Baird wrote:
> > What if the network in question is not the internet?
>
> Right, the AGPL is not technology-neutral.
The AGPL just specifies "computer network" and "network server". It says
nothing about the internet at all.
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