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A flash app is not a physical object

Authored by: ailuromancy on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 01:19 PM EDT

Sorry I forgot to log in at 02:56 AM EDT

If that is how lots of people read the AGPL, then they need to practice reading. It is not that hard.

It did not sound to me like I was saying anything about in browser flash apps. I was confused by the term 'consumer over network' from the anonymous post at 07:41 PM EDT. I could find no reference to 'consumer over network' in the AGPL.

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why doesn't the GPL cover that already?

Authored by: Wol on Friday, October 19 2012 @ 07:06 PM EDT

Because the AGPL covers code that is NOT distributed as a binary.

If I run an AGPL binary on my own server, that is perfectly acceptable PRIVATE
use as far as the GPL is concerned. Even if I make that binary available to
others to run, I am not distributing in the GPL sense.

The AGPL is very different - it says that if I "make available" then I
have to provide the source. So if I run the software on my own servers but allow
others to use it, then I have to make the source available to those others.

Cheers,
Wol

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why doesn't the GPL cover that already? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, October 20 2012 @ 07:13 AM EDT

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