Re: gnustep licensing issue

[David Chisnall]

If they are using code under a license that they don't understand, then they 
should ask a lawyer...

My informal (not legal advice) opinion would be that if they are not 
distributing GNUstep then they don't have any requirements under the license.  
The GPL and LGPL are both distribution licenses - if they are just allowing 
people to use it remotely without distributing the code or the resulting 
software then there are no requirements to do anything.

David

On 21 Feb 2014, at 15:00, Adam Fedor <address@hidden> wrote:

> This came to the webmaster list.  Is anyone in a position to provide an 
> answer for them?
> 
> Begin forwarded message:
> 
>> From: Peter Smith <address@hidden>
>> Subject: gnustep licensing issue
>> Date: February 21, 2014 at 6:27:19 AM MST
>> To: address@hidden, Mike Thompson <address@hidden>
>> 
>> Dear Madam or Sir,
>> 
>>  
>> I represent the group of developers, who are in charge of creating a 
>> cloud-based product. The soft we intend to develop is considered to be 
>> proprietary, and the potential business model based on revenue from end-user 
>> per stream.
>> 
>>  
>> The name of the library we interested in is “gnustep”.
>> 
>>  
>> In fact, I would like to find out if the business model we are going to use 
>> requires any special conditions of licensing; if it does, it would be great 
>> to know from you the details.
>> 
>>  
>> I am looking forward to hear from you asap.
>> 
>>  
>> Best regards,
>> 
>> Peter
>> 
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