@turkingor I am pretty sure you can have your intended deal with the customer.
It is related to GPL (v2,v3) conditions carefully crafted by Richard Stallmann, not that much of what Tiny says about it. Intention by RS was not to force you to distribute your work, but to deny you attaching strings to it. If you give somebody right to use your work, you must give HIM full rights. There is no requirement to publish or shareback (contrary to popular belief). However, if you want to publish your work (to a lot of persons) then you must give the freedoms to the same lot of persons (usually everyone). Options which are pefectly legal under GPL are: - you can develop derivative work and licence it to noone else. Noone can force you to publish your in-house openERP solution. You can have contracts with your employees or consultants that they can not use this code themselves. (or face criminal charges for leaking Your intelectual property). If your customer is very concerned about "leaking" then you should have contract with him that you develop solution for him, not you licence your work to him. - you can have specific industrial app based on OpenERP. You can still sell it to a few customers, and NOT publish it to anyone else. Catch is that your every customer has GPL on your solution - so they can do anything (like publish or resell) with solution. They are too binded by GPL, so everybody they give the work will have the same freedom. If company A has their Solution (purchased from you or developed themselves) the Solution is protected just as anything else. If free-minding employee of company A will publish the Solution, the employee or unsuspicious users of Solution would violate law. Because it is Company A who "owns" rights to Solution and only they can decide if they want to share. May be I am wrong, but this is what I read in GPL. If there is different interpretation (with links to binding GPL text, not arguing ethics here) I would like to know. -------------------- m2f -------------------- -- http://www.openobject.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=45286#45286 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ Tinyerp-users mailing list http://tiny.be/mailman2/listinfo/tinyerp-users
