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I modified a program under CeCILL and users access it through a Web site. Should I give the source code if one of them asks me so ?

April 26, 2017asks cecill modified program source code Users web site

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I modified a program under CeCILL and users access it through a Web site. Should I give the source code if one of them asks me so ?

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Yes, you must. 5.3.2 talks about “distribution” but, as mentioned at the beginning of 5.3, it indeed covers “the right to publish, transmit and communicate the Software to the general public on any or all media and by any or all means”. Using a Web site to make the program available to someone else is thus distribution, even if no copy of the program is shipped. Hence the obligation to provide the source code is effective.