RE: [BMSYNC-USERS] new "My Bookmarks" page at 2Go

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Hi All,

we think that there is being a misunderstanding here.
We at 2Go never had the intention of breaking the GPL
spirit. In fact all fixes or modifications or even
suggestions we made on the Syncit open source were
immediatelly shared with this community (Morbus Iff
sure can certify this).

The latest updates released at our website have
absolutelly nothing to do with the Syncit open source
simply because it's pure HTML customizations. Nothing
more. We did not updated nor improved nor modified any
part or feature of the current version of the Syncit
open source that we are using.

Since our web designer is not part of this community
and did not authorize us to share his work we just
can't do it and we really don't think that we are
violating the GPL spirit by doing that.

Please, understand that the GPL applies only and
exclusivelly to the Syncit code and not to the entire
site which are hosting the service.

We are really sorry if we have caused any trouble. It
was never our intention. We will continue to share any
improvements or modifications eventually made to the
Syncit code.

Hoping we have clarified this matter,
Best regards to everybody,

2Go Team.

 --- Jason Pascucci <jrp...@ya...> escreveu: >
Unfortunately, this is a known fuzziness within the
> GPL (to be fixed in GPL v3), although there is clear
> sleeziness associated with someone exploiting it.
> But, if there is enough money at stake, there might
> be some wiggle room for the creators to hunt down
> the violators based on the strict restrictions of
> 'modification', 'copying', 'distributing', and what
> constitutes private use - probably enough that a
> lawyer would take the case on contingency if the
> original copyright holders didn't care if they got
> much from it. Certainly, anyone would _not_ be able
> to do this with the client side - you clearly have
> to redistribute binaries.
>  
> The creators might want to issue further
> modifications to the server part of the software
> under the Affero GPL
> http://www.affero.org/oagpl.html  license, and
> create a link in the software somewhere to download
> the sources - this forces people to require that the
> mod'd sources be available. While only the creators
> (holding the copyright) can relicense the original
> source and their changes to a more restrictive
> license, they cannot stop others from copying the
> existing version. However, they don't have to wait
> for a significant feature, they can just stop
> distributing the GPLd version, and distribute the
> equivelent Affero version, if making sure the
> software remains 'free' is part of their intent.
>  
> -JRP
> 
> Steffen Siebert <ste...@lo...> wrote:
> > Yes! 
> > I asked it too (because the GPL) but the answer
> was 
> > No. 
> > 
> > This software is released as GPL, so it should be
> used 
> > that way. 
> 
> The GPL states, that you have to provide the source
> if you publish or 
> distribute GPL licensed code. I doubt that running
> GPLed php code on a 
> server counts as publishing or distributing, but I
> might be wrong. 
> 
> Ciao, 
> Steffen 
> 
> 
> 
>
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