Re: Announce: GPL Framework centered on Postgres

From: Matteo Beccati <php(at)beccati(dot)com>
To: Florian Weimer <fw(at)deneb(dot)enyo(dot)de>
Cc: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Kenneth Downs <ken(at)secdat(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Announce: GPL Framework centered on Postgres
Date: 2006-05-18 10:34:50
Message-ID: 446C4DCA.2040707@beccati.com
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Hi,

Florian Weimer wrote:
> Closed source? It's a PHP framework. 8-)
>
> Anyway, for a web application, the GPL is usually *less* restrictive
> than various BSD license variants because you do not need to mention
> the software in the end user documentation. The viral aspect of the
> GPL does not come into play because you do not actually distribute the
> software. You just run it on your servers.

So you're supposing that no one would ever build a distributable (free
or commercial) application on your own framework, because if they do
they are forced to release the whole project under GPL.

Best regards
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Matteo Beccati
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