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If I use OSQA source code to create my own website, do I have to publish my changes to its source code according to OSQA license(GPLv3 AFAIU)? |
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Yes and no. Anything that is delivered to the client, HTML, JS, CSS, yes. You must make that unaltered source available. Anything that solely runs on the server, no, i.e. the python code. I don't want a flame war here, I'm sure it's been discussed before, but GPL v3 is not the correct license for the intent (as I understand it) for this project. The server side code should be licensed under the AGPL if the intent is that servers running the altered code should make the source available. 1
David is correct that you don't have to distribute your changes if you only run the software on your own server. It was not our intent, however, to use the AGPL, or we would have chosen it. We actually selected GPLv3 with this in mind.
(31 Mar '11, 07:42)
rickross ♦♦
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