> Not everyone agrees that the freedom to start a SaaS business with GPL software is a "loophole".
Neither GPLv3 nor GPLv2 prohibit this.
You're thinking of the AGPL, the first version of which was based on the GPLv2 and released in 2002, years before the FSF announced that they were even beginning work on the GPLv3.
Neither GPLv3 nor GPLv2 prohibit this.
You're thinking of the AGPL, the first version of which was based on the GPLv2 and released in 2002, years before the FSF announced that they were even beginning work on the GPLv3.