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Re:A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss ... by eru on Friday May 12, 2017 @06:31PM (#14328459)
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.

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Re:A federal court has denied a pre-trial motion to dismiss ... by lolc on Monday May 15, 2017 @08:27AM (#14341008)
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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