Meebo use of libpurple

[Richard Laager]

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 21:56 +1000, John Uhlmann wrote:
> Richard Laager wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 15:50 -0400, Kyle Stanek wrote:
> > > According to a post on the Meebo website, they feel that they are not
> > > required to release their source code because they do not directly
> > > distribute binaries to customers (since Meebo is a web application).
> > 
> > Yes, this is how the GPL works.
> 
> More accurately I believe that this is how GPLv2 works.
> I recall that there is an optional clause in GPLv3 that requires the release
> of source code in these situations.

You're probably thinking of the Affero GPL. The GPLv3 has something to
make it compatible with the Affero GPL so you can use GPLv3 code in an
Affero GPLv3 project.

Richard
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