Extending the GPL for application service providers

Posted by grouch on Aug 14, 2006 10:59 AM EDT
NewsForge; By Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier
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Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco is scheduled to announce a draft version of a modified GNU General Public License (GPL) today that would add a provision requiring service providers to distribute changes to code, even if they don't "distribute" the code beyond their own servers. Capobianco calls this the Honest Public License (HPL), and the additional provision could add an entirely new wrinkle to free software.

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