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advaelyesterday at 3:57 PM2 repliesview on HN

I mean, is the case you're making that you can run a SaaS business on GPL-derived code without fulfilling GPL obligations because you're not distributing a binary?


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erutoday at 4:21 AM

Yes, that's exactly what people do and did. That 'loophole' is the whole reason people came up with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Affero_General_Public_Lice...

Akronymusyesterday at 3:59 PM

I guess I am. I genuinly am just a layperson trying to look at what the law would say, so everything is speculation.

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