Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 22nd Jul 2007 14:17 UTC, submitted by Oliver
General Development GCC 4.2.1 has been released, the last release of the GNU Compiler Collection under the GPL v2. "GCC 4.2.1 is a bug-fix release, containing fixes for regressions in GCC 4.2.0 relative to previous GCC releases. GCC 4.2.1 will be the last release of GCC covered by version 2 of the GNU General Public License. All future releases will be released under GPL version 3."
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RE[6]: Commercial use
by lemur2 on Mon 23rd Jul 2007 00:45 UTC in reply to "RE[5]: Commercial use"
lemur2
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No. modified GPL software running on a server is not being redistributed. So there is no requirement to supply the modified code.

In the same way that if you modified the Open Office source code for personal use, then wrote letters using it, you would not have to publish your modifications.
(Of course, it would be nice to do so)


Meh. This is a borderline case.

You could also argue (from the opposite viewpoint) that the client users are in effect "running" the code on the server, whereas people who read letters are not running OpenOffice.org in any way.

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