Launchpad - closed source

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Tuesday 07 November 2006 01:45, Andrew Zajac wrote:
> Free software is free because of the terms by which it is distributed.
>  A free licence makes the software free - the licence is between the
> author of the software and the person who downloads the application.
>
> Launchpad is not distributed.  No one else runs it but Canonical, so
> there is no such licence that comes into play.
>
> The question is whether Canoncal is being a good citizen by not
> distributing the code under a GPL-compatible licence even though the
> goal is to not have more than one launchpad up and running.
Actually, parts of Launchpad are distributed open source 
(http://launchpad.net/faq).

And the source code can be obtained jsut by asking for it. Nevertheless, my 
feeling is that there are preconditions attached, and that the source code 
obtained is not freely sitributable (I could be wrong, just osmething I read 
somewhere). I think this would make it pretty conventionally non-free.

Sasha