Hello, and thanks everybody for your answers. First, this is a small company, and I represent several rolles. Right now, I am making the replied to a Call for Tenders, and trying to estimate the volume of the work. Requirements are not clear enough and I will meet my customer on monday to arrange my mind. In the requirements they say. - It has to be an open application - the customer will be the owner of the application, having the source code.
They really dont say anything about licensing. Maybe I have to talk to them to know if they want a GPL application or not. Do you know where could I find a link with a tutorial about GPL licensing? For me official document is very difficult to read, i dont understand anything. (sorry for my english, im spanish) Thanks for your answers Miguel Stefaan A Eeckels ha escrito: > On 1 Dec 2006 03:04:36 -0800 > "miguelx6" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm going to develop a project for public administration. They will be > > the users of this software, they are not going to sell it. After > > finishing the project, I have to deliver all the sources to them, so I > > will not own the sources after that. My question is, could I use gpl > > libraries? I am working for a company and they are going to pay us for > > this project, but, as I am delivering them all the sources, I suppose > > ther should be any problem. > > It would depend on what the arrangement is between your company and the > customer. > > I suppose that your company replied to a Call for Tenders, and that > this CfT contained a list of requirements. In order to arrive at a > price for the work, your company's commercial team would have asked > your or another developer to estimate the volume of the work. In this > estimate, the work represented by the GPLed libraries you want to use > should have been taken into consideration, and compared with the cost > of a commercial license of a comparable product (e.g. a database) or > the cost of developing them yourself. > > It should have been clear at that time whether the CfT allowed the use > of GPLed libraries or not. If not, and your company believed they could > gain a commercial advantage through the use of GPLed libraries, they > should have asked the Public Administration for an official > clarification. If they could be used, and your company decided to use > them, this should have been made clear in the Reply to the CfT. > > It thus all depends on whether your customer knows of, and agrees with > the use of these libraries. It is not something that you can decide for > yourself, as a developer. You need to consult with the commercial and > legal heads of your company. > > If you're working for a small outfit (meaning you might be the > technical, commercial and legal heads rolled in one), you should look > at the contract you have, and clarify the issue with your customer. > > Take care, > > -- > Stefaan A Eeckels > -- > Sometimes I wonder whether the world is run by smart people who are > putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it. --Mark Twain _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
