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mistercow on April 13, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Meteor meets NoGPL

> GPL doesn't require you to distribute your server-side code if you are hosting it on your own servers

This is very clearly true, yet I know of several GPL libraries whose maintainers believe the opposite. It is very strange.

getsat on April 13, 2012 [–]

Are they GPL, or AGPL? The AGPL removes the so-called "network service loophole". Unsurprisingly, few projects use it.

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