another odd rendering of the GPL from Jasper Reports

[Dan Lund]

That's silly.
They are not distributing any part of the application when they make
reports over the web, or even use GPL.
The only time this would effect anyone is if they took a GPL
application, altered it, and started distributing the binaries to the
public.
At that moment, they'd only need to make the source available to those
who ask for it.

--Dan

On 1/21/07, Joshua Zeidner <jjzeidner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>    There is another aspect to Jasper Reports use of the GPL that concerns
> the meaning of 'distribution' :
>
>    "If you plan on distributing (i.e. any person accessing the application
> is not your own companies employee) a software application, containing
> JasperServer or JasperReports for SugarCRM, please note that your
> application may become subject to the GPL."
>
>    In other words they've decided that using their GPL system for a web
> based service would require publication of additions and/or customizations,
> essentially making any level of commercialization impossible.
>
>    I know many cases where GPL software is used for a software/internet
> service with no problems.  ASMOF, this is probably the most common use of
> GPL software today.  Given this rendering of the GPL, JasperReports has to
> shut down their site because it is probably using a Linux kernel.  Is
> JasperRepors out of line here?
>
> -jmz
>
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