My understanding is this. The apps that you develop with Web2py does not have to be GPL, and can be licensed in any way you want. (I am unsure if this violates GPL's terms or not, but this is what I think how web2py's licensing permits).
What is GPL is the web2py framework itself. So, as long as your app does not touch web2py's core and stay within web2py/applications/ yourapp directory, that should be okay. On the other hand, if you want to take web2py add features to it, modify it, then it will have to be GPL. On Dec 11, 2:23 pm, "G. Clifford Williams" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks I appreciate that and I'll surely take you up on that it I think it'll > help me win one of these battles. > > The bottom line is that many commercial entities frown on GPL licensed > software. Legal departments go ape when someone brings in new software and 1) > it's "free" and 2) it's "GPL'd". > For one particular client I'd built a front-end management interface to some > system configs (firewalls, software packages, etc... ). This was something > they were distributing to their clients as part of a bundle. When told that > it would be built with a Python web framework, they assumed it would be > Django. When I was done with it and had turned in my documentation they had a > fit. I got calls from the CTO asking why I would put them in such a position. > They didn't know whether I'd modified anything that was "...part of web2py", > and if I had they wanted to know whether it was "...configuration or code". > The only GPL'd apps they ship to customers are compiled binaries. They wanted > me to 'decouple' what I'd done and submit it for review by their one internal > python guy so that he could determine whether anything in my code was > 'stolen' from web2py. > > I was asked to rewrite everything in Django, Pylons or RoR. > > I'm not saying they were either right or wrong. It's just an ongoing battle > and one more headache that I could really do without. > > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 08:17:23AM -0800, mdipierro spake: > > > are you talking about the web2py license? Why would a client care? > > Web2py imposes no restriction on their code. I an write a letter to > > this effect if at all necessary. > > > Massimo > > > On Dec 11, 10:11�am, "G. Clifford Williams" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > �I hope so. A different license would certainly help with my fight for > > > adoption by a few clients > > > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 06:31:15PM -0800, pbreit spake: > > > > > Did I read correctly that you might evaluate Web2py's license? It does > > > > seem like GPL could potentially discourage usage since it makes the > > > > code harder to modify. That might be why very few frameworks are GPL: > > > >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_application_frameworks > >
