Hi, it depends on the project. GPL: not link friendly in commerical apps LGPL: link friendly, but has some other problems that I can't quite recall BSD/MIT: few restrictions
There are a lot more out there like Mozilla, Creative Commons, etc but those are the more common ones. On 9/10/06, Alias™ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I was wondering - say, for example, I wanted to use part of an OS project in > a commercial project (say, DENG, for example), what exactly would the legal > ramifications of this be? Just for the sake of the argument, let's pretend > it's for some hugely evil corporation, e.g. Microsoft, Phillip Morris, etc. > > I know that with stuff released under the Apache licence there is no issue > with this, but what about the GPL/BSD/other? > > Would there be any way around these issues, if any? Say, obtaining > permission from the author/paying a commercial use fee? If the source is not > modified, does the GPL in fact have any effect in this case? > > Just wondering, > Alias > > _______________________________________________ > osflash mailing list > [email protected] > http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org > > > -- Cheers, Ray Chuan _______________________________________________ osflash mailing list [email protected] http://osflash.org/mailman/listinfo/osflash_osflash.org
