[horde] TeliaSonera violating the GPL by using Horde-code?
Jeff Warnica
jeffw at chebucto.ns.ca
Sat Mar 20 09:23:33 PST 2004
Ah, the ASP question. First, while IANAL, I think it safe to say that
since this release of code was unintentional, its release wouldn't
'trigger' the rest of the GPL. So the question is far more general: "if
you use a GPLd web based program, modify it, but run it publicly, does
that count as 'distribution', and if it doesn't, should it?"
The abridged answer, from the GNUs head lawyer is: "We don't know, and
maybe". You really don't have much of a case.. GNU doesn't even know
what to do yet.
On Sat, 2004-20-03 at 17:07 +0100, Jonatan Heyman wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm living in sweden and a while ago, sweden's biggest ISP
> (http://teliasonera.com), had some problem with their webmail webserver,
> which caused all PHP files' sourcecode to be available for everyone for
> about 15 minutes. I happened to go to their page at that very moment and
> I downloaded a part of their webmail system during this period of time.
> When I checked the code I stumbled across two GPL notes in the beginning
> of two files.
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