Am Freitag, den 31.12.2010, 10:33 +0100 schrieb Krzysztof Żelechowski:
Whether the sources on the server are public or not is completely irrelevant to Geany.
Well, I was talking about Software one writes using Geany. Usually, the author himself decides under which license the software is he writes.
That said, I have no problem with server-side code with a proprietary license.
- If it is not your server, you cannot modify the code anyway.
If it's a free software license, there is a place where you can download the code and modify it then, and then run it on your own server, if you like, of course.
- If it is your server and third-party code, it comes with a binding license already.
Not sure what you mean by "binding license". But I know free software with which it is possible to use, study, modify and spread even if it is designed to run server-side. Of course, this is just possible because of the license - either AGPLv2+ or GPLv3+ if I understood Frank correctly.
- If it is your server and your code, you have no obligation to publish the code. In this case, instead of providing the code, you serve your processing power and your bandwidth to the public.
That's correct, yes, of course. Talking about Free Software, we talk about Freedom, so one should also have the Freedom to decide if he licenses his software under a free software license or not. :)
In any way, Geany doesn't force an author to put his code under a specific license. Geany does just suggestions by default installation. The templates where the licenses are included, are customizable anyway.
So, to get back to the original topic, I appreciate the idea of suggesting Creative Commons for HTML documents by default. In my opinion, it should suggest AGPLv2+ or GPLv3+ for PHP then (I think it already does so)
Regards, Dominic