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Re:VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues by tw04 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @03:50PM (#10466878)
You can provide services all day long and you don't have to provide the source code. It's when you ship a binary that you have to provide the source to the person buying it (or technically just downloading it if you give it away).
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Re:VMware GPL Enforcement Suit in Germany Continues by click170 on Wednesday October 28, 2015 @05:34PM (#10467595)
There are gpl-like libraries for which this is not true like the Affero GPL which is not as wifely used, but for the GPL itself this statement holds true.
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