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		maxk42 on June 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day ... GPL license states you must provide source code to the end-user. In this case, the end-user is legally Napolux, not the visitors to his site.

userbinator on June 12, 2020 [–]

In any case, View -> Source

The source code of a public website is automatically provided to everyone who visits it. This fact is unfortunately not well-known.

mulmen on June 12, 2020 | [–]

That's... not how webpages work. This is why the AGPL even exists.

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