Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Licence Break

[Jason Wies]

If they're just running a hosting service then they don't even have to send the 
source code if someone requests it.  The user is only entitled to the source 
code if they also have the binary or part of the release, which is not true in 
the case of hosting services.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLRequireSourcePostedPublic

It does look they're selling it/giving it away though since they list system 
requirements.  Even that is ok by the GPL under most circumstances.  Not much 
point in speculating though, hopefully someone who speaks Portugese will be 
able to find out for sure and let us know.

Jason Wies aka Zone

On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 09:33:46AM -0700, Dan Kuykendall wrote:
> I dont see that they are doing anything wrong. The code is GPL'd so they 
> are welcome to use it.
> The only two requirements are
> 1) If someone _request_ the source code, then they must send that person 
> the code.
> 2) They must include the license header in the sourcecode files.
> 
> If they fail to do either of these things they may be in a GPL 
> vilolation, but nothing I see indicates this to be the case.
> We could test by making a request for their source.
> 
> Dan
> 
> Jean Everson Martina wrote:
> > 
> > Hi All,
> > 
> >     I don't know if this the right place to post, but I've found here in 
> > brazil one
> > company using phpgroupware, as one of their products, without mentionig 
> > anything
> > about the phpgroupware project. I think this is against the phpgroupware's 
> > GPL
> > license.
> > 
> > plese take a look:
> > 
> > http://www.interage.com.br/produtos/produtos.htm
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
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