.:: GPL 3.0 to Penalize Google, Amazon? ::.

[tuXian]

Is this the start of a shakedown by the GNU folks? Michael Singer writes that Eben Moglen and the folks rewriting the GPL are looking at a proposal where companies would be required to pay money if they use GPLed software, even if they don't redistribute the software."

From the article: "The current version of the GPL, which was last updated in 1991, fails to trigger the open source license if a company alters the code, but does not distribute its software through a CD or floppy disk...the [current] rule does not apply to companies that distribute software as a service, such as Google and eBay, or even dual-license companies like Sleepycat."

source:slashdot

[desertwind]

On a reply to my email, Mr. Richard M Stallman told me that, that was utter nonsense. There is nothing going on like that on GPL.