Which version of GPL are you referring to? GPLv2 or GPLv3?
The most popular being used is GPLv2. You can read the GPL in its entirety at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html To briefly state it: 1. You can copy and distribute source code keeping any notice intact regarding the license (GPL), and absence of warranty. And also:
You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee.
This means you can charge if somebody asks you a copy of any GPL-licensed program, provided that you are the one of produced the copy onto any medium (CD/DVD/etc...) as long as you keep the license notification and no warranties intact. You can only offer warranty to the medium where the program is copied to. 2. You can modify any GPL-licensed program or use specific components from a specific GPL-licensed program, and copy or distribute the derived program however, must also meet number 1. You must also include a notification that you derived your program from an existing program or from a component of an existing program, and the changes that you made to the program. Your final program must also be distributed as a GPL-licensed program including the source code since it is derived from an existing GPL-licensed program. Although a program is GPLed doesn't mean that you can just to anything and distribute the program and claim as your own. It is also expressly encouraged that you notify the original author that you intend to use his work as a basis for your own work or make a derivative of such. As for the components, you can contact the original component developer and express your intent to use such component. However notifying the author of the program where you will be basing your work on will be sufficient. You can see and study the GPL in detail at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html On 12/12/06, Niño Rey Jandayan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
naa lang ko gamay na pangutana... about sa gpl/lgpl licensing ang ginastate man gud is pag imodify nimo you must distribute while preserving the name of the orig. author. ok lang mana, pero what if ang application na ginadevelop is mission-critical or handling very sensitive transaction processes, are you compelled to distribute or pwede ra itago ang code for life? Basin ba na ang processes is well-illustrated sa code, and then dili cya pwede magawas sa bounds sa company... getz? salamat daan. -- "We are here to understand the choices we have made." - The Oracle http://neo4386.blogdrive.com/ http://neo4386.blogspot.com/ <-technical http://mpsc.ph/ssc/sciit/ _________________________________________________ Kagay-Anon Linux Users' Group (KLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (http://cdo.linux.org.ph) Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
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