[Ilugc] CollabNet Acquires SourceForge
- From: sundaram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Rahul Sundaram)
- Date: Sat Apr 28 09:12:33 2007
Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
On 27-Apr-07, at 5:21 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Maybe a analogy would help. Microsoft Office is a product. Google
Office (non enterprise edition) is a web service. That's the difference.
both are proprietary - so no real diff
Sure there is. The traditional norms of Free software have never
involved web services and none of the licenses (except for Affero GPL)
treat web services as a form of distribution.
There is a take at
http://log.ometer.com/2006-07.html#29 on the impact. ;
The latest GPL v3 draft at
http://gplv3.fsf.org/gpl-draft-2007-03-28.html includes a compatibility ;
provision with (yet to be released) Affero GPLv2. This along with the
related rationale document explaining the changes shows that there is
indeed a difference between a web service and a product.
Rahul
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