You have a good point. The welcome scaffolding app is not GPL. It is pubic domain (no license whatsoever). I have said that before but it is not explicitly stated in the license. I will add a statement to the top of each .py file in the welcome app.
Massimo On Dec 11, 2:52 pm, Branko Vukelic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:49 PM, VP <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. > > There's one catch, though. If a piece of code is a template that comes > with web2py (which means the template code is also GPL), does the > template, which is covered by GPL, also prevent you from distributing > templates as binary-only. > > I don't mean HTML etc. Those are static files anyway. I mean the .py > templates like the db.py template that is included in the welcome app. > When you start off, 100% of your app is comprised of GPL'd code from > the welcome app. > > -- > Branko Vukelić > > [email protected] > [email protected] > > Check out my blog:http://www.brankovukelic.com/ > Check out my portfolio:http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ > Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) > I hang out on identi.ca:http://identi.ca/foxbunny > > Gimp Brushmakers Guildhttp://bit.ly/gbg-group
