Even if the software is under LGPL, you cannot remove the software from
LGPL by making modifications to it. In a combined work, you only have to
release the source for the portions that were originally LGPL, the rest of
the work can have some other license.
Allowing source to be removed from LGPL by making minimal modifications
would mean that I could rename a variable in a function and claim to have
modified the source and therefore did not have to release the source.
But like Dr. Anderson said: Your best choice is to find a good lawyer.
jm7
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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?
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 12:52 AM, <[email protected]> wrote:
> I believe that both GPL and LGPL disallow any charge for the software in
> excess of the cost of the media and distribution, but you may charge for
> ancillary services such as support.
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> BOINC is distributed under the LGPL license. LGPL != GPL.
> Neither license prohibits selling anything AFAIK.
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> On 14-Oct-2010 7:13 AM, [email protected] wrote:
> > Question 1: The GPL states that if you redistribute the executable,
you
> > have to redistribute the source. So, if you are using it for your own
> use,
> > or internally within one company, you do not have to share the source.
> > However, if you give it to anyone (and you are not allowed to sell it)
> you
> > will have to supply the source as well. NOTE, that since I am not an
> > employee of UCB, this is merely an informed opinion, not a reflection
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> > how they see the world.
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