Timeline for Can I use GPL-licensed services embedded in an iframe from a commercial application?
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| Aug 27, 2020 at 20:05 | comment | added | Adam Arold | It is under the owner's control. The source code is GPL open source so anyone can deploy it. In my case I would put this on Heroku or Digital Ocean. In the user's browser a POST call is made and the results are put into the DOM (in an iframe). And the JS that runs there doesn't make any calls to my app, it saves the resulting HTML content automatically to a file server. It is my understanding that this falls in the "Mere Aggregate" category as the two apps work independently and there is only a webservice call involved between the two. | |
| Aug 27, 2020 at 6:25 | comment | added | MadHatter♦ | Sort of. The remote server that serves that JS for the editor, is this server under your control? Or do you just redirect the user's browser to it? | |
| Aug 26, 2020 at 22:21 | comment | added | Adam Arold | did I clear things up regarding the user interaction? | |
| Aug 25, 2020 at 20:48 | comment | added | Adam Arold | Fair enough, I added a workflow description to my question. | |
| Aug 25, 2020 at 14:35 | comment | added | MadHatter♦ | When you say use the service from my proprietary software do you mean use the service as part of an offering alongside my proprietary software? Tell us more about how the end-user interacts with all of this, when your software decides to show the end-user the editor, and what (if anything) it does with edited files. Forget the iframe, by the way, that makes no difference at all to the coupling involved. | |
| Aug 25, 2020 at 13:51 | comment | added | Adam Arold | I am not the creator of this editor, I just want to put it on the web as as service. Then I'd like to use this service form my propietary software. Javascript is downloaded to the client's browser but it is not linked in any way with my software (I use an iframe to load it). What obligations do I have in this case? So to clarify: I put this editor as part of my OSS project as a service and then I use this project as service from my propietary software. There are 3 projects involved. | |
| Aug 25, 2020 at 13:33 | history | answered | MadHatter♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |