Not true Gerald, not true at all. GPL software can be used as much as you want it just can not be distributed. In order to distribute an application leveraging GPL licensed software your license must be compatible. Your below statment is totally inaccurate.
Adam On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Gerald Guido <[email protected]>wrote: > > > > > Can the free version be used commercially ? > > Or is the soft free, but you have to buy licenses? ;-) > > > > It was free before. As far as rolling it into commercial apps... I am not > all that sure on the licencing issues. You would have to ask Gert. ;o) > > > The important part for me is that it is LGPL which means ppl can roll a CF > runtime into commercial offerings with out having to open source their > apps. > I am not a big fan of GPL because if ppl use GPL apps on any internal apps > such as intranets that handle a lot internal business processes (Read: The > internal workings of their business), they would have to open source thier > entire intranet. That can be a "very bad thing" for a business. > > I for one welcome our new CF LGPL Overlords. > > G! > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Claude Schneegans < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I think it wasn't free before. > > > > Can the free version be used commercially ? > > Or is the soft free, but you have to buy licenses? ;-) > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321155 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
