Do we need to protect open source from the cloud?

Courtesy Digg Linux/Unix upcoming  Thu, 05/08/2008 - 14:39

Copyleft licenses, such as the GPL used for the Linux kernel and the majority of other open-source projects, require that the source code for enhancements and other modifications to GPLd code be made available to the commons if the modified software is distributed.

...If the modified code is only used within a company, that's not distribution.

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