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by RyanZAG
4903 days ago
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You're correct... I find this completely insane though! Everything is just 0s and 1s that are transformed and ultimately can be passed through the logic gates on a CPU to do math. Whether code is compiled or interpreted has no effect on the end goal - such as an instruction to the CPU to add two numbers. Copyright is such a mess. |
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What I am trying to get at is that traditionally web software is not distributed at all. That is, the software itself is never provided to the user and the user just interfaces with it externally.
The point regarding binary stuff was as it applies to distributed projects because if PHP or any other interpreted language is "distributed" in a traditional sense, it is already in source code.
I feel as though the confusion here is because people are looking at the initial distribution to other developers and thinking that's it. But that distribution completely allows for a developer to "link to it", modify it, and keep it behind closed doors if it is never distributed. And it isn't if it's sitting behind a web server... someone is just interfacing with it through a completely open protocol.
The point of the AGPL is to say that someone who is using a program, regardless of the fact that the program itself is never being distributed to them, has a right to get the source.