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03-15-2008, 08:24 PM

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Using open source (GPL) software to build a public web site?

Hi, I am thinking of using open source tools to build a web application, for example using the LAMP framework, and maybe some libraries and code that I find on the web. Some of them are covered under GPL and others like MIT, BSD.

My main question is that since I am not distributing the software I write, but hosting it to provide a service, do I have to release the source code of my web application?

The following FAQ from GPL seems to say it is ok for me not to release my source code, at least for now.

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#UnreleasedMods

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