Hi all, I need some help to understand the licences world, probably due my not English origins I have some difficulties to understand the terms of various licences and their relating limitations. Do you know a simple and clear site that explain all terms in few words?
e.g. (these are only explicative projects): - Lazarus is under LGPL, I understood that I can use it to make also commercial products without costs (of course, if/when I start earn money I'll donate to community :) ). - GLScene is under MPL, I understood that I can use it to make also commercial products without costs, but I need to mention somewhere on my product that I developed it with GLScene. My code could be closed, but I modify glscene code I should release it. - Audorra is under MPL 1.1, I don't understood the differences between GLScene and Audorra licences. In their site is reported: "Audorra is licensed under the MPL 1.1. Because this license is incompatible to the common open source license "GPL", you may use the project under the GPL or LGPL. Please remember: When linking against libraries, which are licensed under the GPL (like Acinerella), your project automatically falls under the same license. " What this means? If I use Audorra with Lazarus+GLScene I need to release my project with GPL or LGPL licence? (PS I tried audorra and it uses acinerella.dll to reproduce sounds) So: - Acinerella is under GPL, I don't understood very well what this means... Using a product under GPL it must remain under GPL/open source/no-commercial? And what about other common licences? An other question: if I want to protect my closed-source software, is it enough to place a my own "hand-wrote" disclaimer, or I need to register it somewhere? Thank you, Kjow PS I mean only a legal-oriented question, not a moral one. I'll donate for sure to all project that will permit me to earn money (if I will :p ) and I'll mention all of these into credits and into the eventual website. But for this I need to know how I can do all in a legal way... -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus