[thelist] GNU / GPL
Fred Jones
fredthejonester at gmail.com
Wed Oct 24 05:40:40 CDT 2007
> No. No offense to your lawyer, but this is utter nonsense. If your
> application is built using GPL software, your software itself needs to
> be released using the appropriate GPL license. Which means that, along
> with the .exe, you have to provide the source code of your application,
The client does NOT want to release the source code, however.
> No, commercial use of GPL software is explicitly allowed. However, you
> have to release your software under the terms of the GPL and you will
> have to provide the source code.
>
> See http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLCommercially
He wants to be able to charge $ for each license and ONLY release the
EXE itself.
Thanks,
Fred
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