Development of Creative Commons licenses

[drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>]

On Monday 22 August 2005 11:52 pm, Tom Hosiawa wrote:
> > Or if what Tom really wants is a GPL-like license that considers use in
> > a web app distribution, use http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html (which is
> > not OSI-certified, but the FSF apparently considers it a free software
> > license and potentially upward compatible with GPL 3.0, whatever that
> > means) or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_Public_License (which
> > is OSI-approved, though it looks questionable to me, and the FSF says it
> > is non-free).
>
> That is basically what I'm looking for. I've read stuff about the GPL
> and people just saying it doesn't affect web apps, but I've never read
> a good argument on how it doesn't.

Well, as far as I understand it, the reason te GPL does not affect "web apps" 
is because one of the freedoms it considers important is the freedom to make 
and use private modifications and to keep your code private. The code 
"share-alike" provisions kick in when you choose to not keep your mods 
private but to distribute them. So, when you let someone log into a web site 
and make use of the site, you have not given them the code and so you can 
keep your mods private.

Does anyone have any thoughts on similar issues if you were to give someone 
remote desktop access via something like vnc?

all the best,

drew
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