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Re:The Day AppGet Died by hnick on Wednesday May 27, 2020 @11:52PM (#23333207)
If my web server calls out to AGPL software (such as executing a transform on a PDF using Ghostscript) as an external binary is this covered even though the AGPL code is not directly compiled, linked or modified? I'd assume so otherwise it would be a very easy loophole and code could be firewalled into separate modules but I'm not sure what exact language covers this in the license.
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Re:The Day AppGet Died by chii on Thursday May 28, 2020 @12:00AM (#23333253)
It's untested in court.

GCC is written specifically to prevent this sort of firewalling of the compiler to prevent it from being plugged into another piece of software and avoid GPL requirements.

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Re:The Day AppGet Died by hnick on Thursday May 28, 2020 @01:13AM (#23333605)
Good to know, it'll be interesting if it ever does get tested.

Even then there's always the analogue/human loophole I suppose, similar to captcha mechanical turks.

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