Re: When is a GPL program which runs in a web site 'conveyed'?

[Alexander Terekhov]

Hyman Rosen wrote:
> 
> Tim Smith wrote:
> > I think you've overlooked what the AGPL itself says.  It explicitly says
> > that if what you are doing is allowed by copyright law, it is NOT
> > "modifying" as far as the AGPL is concerned.  That's the intent of the
> > licensor.
> 
> But the question is, what is allowed by copyright law?

The copyright law allows you to modify the Program, and your modified
version is allowed to NOT "offer all users interacting with it remotely
through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction)
an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by
providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no
charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying
of software."

"Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify
the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users
interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your
version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the
Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the
Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some
standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software."

is a contractual covenant and not a limitation of license scope (the
fact that provision is totally meaningless under the definition of
modify aside for a moment).

regards,
alexander.

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