Tim O’Reilly: “[I]t’s clear to me at least that the open source activist community needs to come to grips with the change in the way a great deal of software is deployed today. And that, after all, was my message: not that open source licenses are unnecessary, but that because their conditions are all triggered by the act of software distribution, they fail to apply to many of the most important types of software today, namely Web 2.0 applications and other forms of software as a service.”
Fortunately, there’s the Affero GPL. I’m actually a bit disappointed about the fact that the GPL version 3 is not going to have the same features as the AGPL. Well, whatever. It’s at least not incompatible with the AGPL anymore, and it does explicitly permit software authors to add a clause that fulfills the same function.