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Re: Compiling octave on iPhone
From: |
Francesco Potortì |
Subject: |
Re: Compiling octave on iPhone |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Jun 2010 11:46:09 +0200 |
>The GPL only kicks in when you start to distribute your code. GPL3
>introduces the notion of 'conveying', which mostly broadens the
>"distribution" to accessing a service over a network.
Well, no. You need the Affero license for that. This is what GPLv3
says:
| To "convey" a work means any kind of propagation that enables other
|parties to make or receive copies. Mere interaction with a user through
|a computer network, with no transfer of a copy, is not conveying.
>However, if you compile GPL code on your own system and don't let anyone
>except yourself access it, there's nothing to violate.
You can let people access it. And you can even distribute it, provided
you accompany it with information how to install it.
>I don't know the iPhone EULA, so I can't comment on that.
Not me either: from what I have read, it may prevent you from providing
the information how to install it: if this is true, it means that you
can not lawfully distribute it.
ALL THE ABOVE IS SPECULATION: I am not a lawyer and this is not legal
advice. So don't bet your fortunes on what I said :)
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