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Re: [hobbit] license question

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PPS, I did do some work for a client a number of years ago (before
hobbit, with BB) where we customised (read wrote a new) web interface.
The bb client was stock standard and re-distributed, but the work on the
server was never distributed, hence source code didn't need to be
shared. This was basically to let each client login and see their own
status, and nobody else's, and let the company
configure/setup/delete/etc the clients monitoring/passwords/etc...
Unfortunately, the company went bust, and I lost all copies of the work
I had done...
I think this specific issue was one of the "loopholes" that GPL v3 hopes to close. Of course since BB was not GPL it will not apply. But as i understand it if you use GPL software to provide a service over the web and you have changed the source then you have to distribute (make available) the changes. As I see it there is no provision in GPL v2 for this. 

And of course I am not a lawyer :)

Cheers

Iain


PPPS, and I am not a lawyer :)

Regards,
Adam

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