On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Aryeh Gregor <simetrical+wikil...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can still link it with proprietary code as long as you don't > distribute the result, so it would be fine for research projects or > similar that rely on proprietary components.
What happens if one of your employees or volunteers distributes the result? > You can always *use* GPLd code however you like. Does "use" include "prepare a derivative work"? > If you want to *distribute* proprietary > (or otherwise GPL-incompatible) code that depends on my volunteer > contributions, I'm happy to tell you to go jump off a bridge. Copyright law gives the author an exclusive right to *prepare* derivative works, not just to *distribute* derivative works. What in the GPL gives you permission to prepare a proprietary derivative work which you do not distribute? _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
