[horde] TeliaSonera violating the GPL by using Horde-code?

[Rick romero]

On Mar 20, 2004, at 11:23 AM, Jeff Warnica wrote:

>
> 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.

Maybe?   The OUTPUT of running a GPL'd application should require 
distribution of the source?

And people wonder why there's such of fear of using the GPL.

The GPL only covers distribution of the application.  Printing a 
spreadsheet from a GPL app does
not require you to release the source of that app to the world.  HTML 
is just another form of output.

Rick

>
>
> 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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