On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 12:57 PM, R. Brent Clements <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rbclemen@gmail.com">rbclemen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
And would writing GPL'd code to access a collection of data that is<br>
not released under a public license violate the "proprietary bundling"<br>
bit of the license? The code is released to the community so it can<br>
be reused to access other people's data collections. And is there a<br>
difference between data distributed on the same medium as the code and<br>
remotely accessed data?<br></blockquote><div><br>GPL normally covers code only. Even non code elements in a GPL product<br>are not covered by the GPL, e.g. images, CSS, ...etc.<br><br>The GPL FAQ discourages using the GPL for non-code components.<br>
<br>For data, there is no impact on whether the code is GPL or not. It is not viral<br>to the data it processes.<br><br>Also look at the Affero license<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affero_General_Public_License</a><br>
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