"you are free to use and redistribute Linux without royalty or licensing fees, but you must make the Linux source code available to your customers. You can't sell Linux, but you can sell any distribution media or enhancements that you develop.....The GPL also states that all "derived work" must also be released under GPL... If you build and redistribute a kernel that includes your device driver, then your device driver code is automatically included under the GPL and you must make it's source code available to your customers. Device drivers that load dynamically after the kernel boot process are not included under the GPL, and you don't have to distribute your source code... Designing products with Linux and other open-source software doesn't mean you have to make your software open source. Use of loadable modules and LGPL libraries protects your intellectual property... If a product executes solely in the user space, that is, it has no kernel code or device drivers, it is not affected by the Linux kernel source code GPL. A product running an application in user space can be affected through linking to libraries that are included under the GPL or another licensing model, called LGPL. If an application running in user space and that application dynamically or statically links to glibc for functionality, the application is not included under GPL or LGPL, and you do not have to release your source code."
More or less a quote.
HTH
Greg
On Friday, Dec 12, 2003, at 13:08 US/Eastern, bp wrote:
We will not be making use of any GPL source, just using OpenLDAP, Struts
and Tomcat. And of course pitching the solution with a penchant for
deploying on Linux ;-)
-bp
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