[ Thanks to Martin Michlmayr
for this link. ]
“Software as a service (SaaS) entered the IT landscape in 2000
and has revolutionized the deployment models of many software
companies and even entire industries, such as Internet search. It
has also becoming an increasingly popular form of consuming
applications within enterprises of all shapes, sizes and
geographies.“SaaS also brought about a heated debate over the distribution
and licensing of open source software. This is of particular
importance for open source companies whose software is used to
power Internet-based services and applications. If someone uses
their open source software over a network and alters the code in
any way, do they need to make their code changes available and does
it fall under the guidance of popular open source licenses such as
GPL…?”