I meant to copy this to the list too.
----- Forwarded Message ---- > From: Carlos Rega <[email protected]> > To: Pete Lindsey <[email protected]> > Sent: Fri, 17 December, 2010 10:22:07 > Subject: Re: [poppler] Win32 poppler-qt4 > > > > >From: Pete Lindsey <[email protected]> > >To: [email protected]; [email protected] > >Sent: Fri, 17 December, 2010 9:04:20 > >Subject: Re: [poppler] Win32 poppler-qt4 > > > I have no problems sharing my code, though I doubt anyone will use it, I > > am > >just trying to put together an app that lets me do book marking and linking >on > > >PDF documents that doesn't actually change the pdf document (uses a > >database > >instead) and allows for multi target urls to be drawn on the actual >interface... > > > > >but I am pretty sure you are not allowed to sell anything that is open >source > > > Albert is right, you definitely can sell open source, Red Hat, Suse and many > others make a pretty good living out of seling open source. There are many > different open source licences, and it would be difficult to give a > comprehensive summary here. In a nutshel, the GPL requires that if you > distribute applications licensed under the GPL, or applications that use > code > licensed under the GPL then you must make the code available to any users > that > > you distribute the application to. Note that there is no mention of charge > for > > the code. The freedom in the GPL is the freedom of the user to see and > modify > the code of the application they receive, but they can be charged for it. > > In reality what tends to happen is that people that sell open source don't >sell > > licences for the app as such, like MS and others do, but they sell support > services, as the code is allways available. > > Hope this helps, and I haven't make any serious mistakes in my explanation. > > Carlos > > > > > _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
