Quoting Jason Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> Justin,
>
> I don't want this to spark a long thread, but I would like some
> clarification. Can I, without contacting anyone, use WebMacro as part
> of a corporate web site, keeping all the source to the site's content
> private -- and do I retain the option to sell the source to the content
> later under whatever license I like?
You can use webMacro on a corporate or commercial or any other kind
of site. You can build applications based on WebMacro and transfer
copyright to them to someone else. In both cases you can keep your
sources proprietary, and do not need to contact anyone.
Thus you can put it to commercial use, sell it to someone else, or write
software for someone else under contract.
I would call that commercial use. I would definately call that free.
I expect 99% of people to use it that way for free, for commercial profit,
or any other use. You cannot distribute or sublicense what you build under
any license you like; the GPL says derived works when distributed must be
distributed under the GPL--conferring the exact same benefits on others as
you derived from WebMacro.
For more on the GPL and its underlying free software philosophy,
read this and other articles from the GNU/FSF project:
http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
You can read a copy of the GPL itself for clarification:
Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
WebMacro.org http://www.webmacro.org/COPYING
You can do anything with WebMacro that you can do with Linux; they
are under the exact same license.
Justin
>
> Here's hoping this stays on topic.
>
> -jh-
>
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