{"id":485,"date":"2009-04-07T10:04:57","date_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:04:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2009-04-07T10:04:57","modified_gmt":"2009-04-07T17:04:57","slug":"gpls-cloudy-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/2009\/04\/gpls-cloudy-future\/","title":{"rendered":"GPL&#8217;s Cloudy Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.zdnet.com\/BTL\/?p=15855\">post<\/a>, from Jeremy Allison as it turns out. It talks about how GPL software is &#8220;the new BSD&#8221; when it comes to cloud computing, since redistribuion of the software doesn&#8217;t happen, and thus doesn&#8217;t trigger the relevant clauses of the GPL. Any old company can use, re-use, and modify the software without sharing the code in the original spirit of the license. The community&#8217;s response&#8211;something I need to keep a closer eye on&#8211;is the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Affero_General_Public_License\">AGPL<\/a>, or Affero license. It works similarly to the GPL, but is triggered by remote use of the software, not just distribution, preserving the work&#8217;s copylefedness even in cloud computing situations. -m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoyed this post, from Jeremy Allison as it turns out. It talks about how GPL software is &#8220;the new BSD&#8221; when it comes to cloud computing, since redistribuion of the software doesn&#8217;t happen, and thus doesn&#8217;t trigger the relevant clauses of the GPL. Any old company can use, re-use, and modify the software without&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34,25,9,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commercialism","category-ipr","category-standards","category-trends"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8eo8l-7P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubinko.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}