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I assume you are talking about this section? "13. Remote Network Interaction; Use with the GNU General Public License. Notwithstanding any other provision of this License, if you modify the Program, your modified version must prominently offer all users interacting with it remotely through a computer network (if your version supports such interaction) an opportunity to receive the Corresponding Source of your version by providing access to the Corresponding Source from a network server at no charge, through some standard or customary means of facilitating copying of software." I'm not sure that it prevents anyone from offering a SaaS version of your product - just that they have to make the code available if they modify it.


indeed! I was wrong then, I thought the entire backend had to be open sourced, not just the modified version.

I stand corrected then


That depends on how (and how much) the backend is tied to the modified version (IANAL, don't ask me for specifics, it's REALLY gnarly, and there are various contradicting legal opinions).




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