OK, thank you!

On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 1:42 AM, David Anderson <[email protected]>wrote:

> If you need reliable info on licensing,
> this email list is not the place to get it.
> Try a licensing-related message board, or better yet ask an IP lawyer.
> -- David
>
>
> On 14-Oct-2010 10:29 AM, Alan Sun wrote:
>
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Well, The GPL restricts the software to open source and free for itself.
>> For
>> example, if a software is under the GPL license, I cannot sell itself; or
>> I can
>> sell it, but I have to tell my customers that they can get it free in
>> other
>> ways, and I have to open the software source code.
>>
>> But if a software is under the LGPL, then I can use it in a commercial
>> software
>> product, and sell this product. For example, the BOINC is under the LGPL,
>> and I
>> did some customization on it to get the commercial product "CNIOB", and
>> then, I
>> can sell the CNIOB, and don't need to open the source code of my
>> modifications.
>>
>> Am I right on this?
>>
>
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