My interpretation of the GPL is that you can absolutely download GNUJSP and
use it on your site for free. You can modify it and sell it, or even just
sell it unmodified, provided your derived product is released under the GPL
as well (in other words, allow others to sell your modified product).
As for GNUJSP, I don't know why you'd want to resell it anyway. But you
should definitely be able to run a commercial site off it.
-Ben
>Well, you *can* actually make money on GNU software by distributing it in
>its original form. The biggest example is Redhat Software (www.redhat.com)
>and their Linux distribution. What you can't do is extend it and make
>proprietary software based on it. I'm not entirely sure you can't use
>GNUJSP on a commercial site for free; as I understand it, the only time it
>would take effect is if you distributing a program based on it. You'd have
>to read the GPL and have more understanding of law and copyrights than I do
>to say for sure, though :).
>
>Rick
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>> It _IS_ free for non comercial purposes.
>>
>> Try imagine someone making money on products based on yours
>> which you have developed many many hours.
>>
>>
>> Joe Shevland wrote:
>>
>> > I'm sorry if this is a dumb post, but I've been swamped
>> with the various
>> > implementations of JSP etc...
>> >
>> > My question: is there a truly Open Source JSP
>> implementation i.e. not Gnu,
>> > not SJSP etc.? One that is free for commercial and
>> non-commercial use?
>> >
>> > I keep getting excited by the new releases only to read the
>> license and
>> > people are trying to make commercial use out of a
>> specification drawn up by
>> > Sun; to me this is wrong. I can understand people trying to
>> charge for
>> > *products* based on the JSP specification, and also if they
>> significantly
>> > add functionality to a JSP implementation, but not just a bare-bones
>> > rewrite.
>> >
>> > Anyone for an OpenJSP team :) ?
>> >
>> > Cheers,
>> > Joe.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Joe Shevland
>> > Principal Consultant
>> > Turnaround Solutions Pty. Ltd.
>> > Ph: +61-03-6224-9146 * Fax: +61-03-6223-2556
>> > --
>> > Make money and the whole world will conspire to call you a
>> gentleman. - Mark
>> > Twain
>> >
>> > > -----Original Message-----
>> > > From: A mailing list about Java Server Pages
>> specification and reference
>> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Stepan Schejbal
>> > > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 1999 9:34 AM
>> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > > Subject: SJSP and Apache/JServ
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > I make SJSP Apache/JServ compatible.
>> > >
>> > > Corrected version is at http://web.telecom.cz/sator/jsp/index.html
>> > >
>> > > tested environment: OS/2 Warp, Apache 1.3.4, JServ 1.0 Beta 2
>> > >
>> > > [SJSP is SUN's 0.92 JSP implementation]
>> > >
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