News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Open Source Exploitation and Burnout. Parent comment

Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by senko on Saturday July 30, 2016 @02:11PM (#12194016)
This is a common misconception. They don't have to release them under GPL if they don't distribute the modified version. With SaaS, this is in practice true for any server side code that remains private to the company. Affero GPL addresses this but I haven't seen it much in the wild.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Open Source Exploitation and Burnout by match on Saturday July 30, 2016 @03:55PM (#12194431)
Also because of this many SaaS and IaaS companies do not permit the use of OSS where the license requires them to release their source.
[ Parent | on HN ]