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eru
on May 12, 2017
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A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to d...
You can totally have GPL-licensed code in closed-source code as long as you don't publish it. So you can totally run your SaaS business like that.
The Affero GPL tries to close that loophole.
lolc
on May 15, 2017
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Indeed the code only becomes unlicensed as soon as you violate the GPL terms. So I guess the correct way of framing this would be that internal copies, including changes, are still under the GPL.
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The Affero GPL tries to close that loophole.