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dalbasal on March 21, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Some software cannot be used at Google

So in plain GPL, it isn't or it's ambiguous?

lvh on March 21, 2018 [–]

Hasn't been tested in court to my knowledge, but my understanding is that leading IP lawyers who otherwise disagree on a bunch of things about the GPL (Eben Moglen, Lawrence Rosen) agree that e.g a modified GPLd publicly accessible web server doesn't count as distribution.

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