Be careful if you are including something that is licensed to you under the GPL. The GPL requires that you distribute the source code (only the GPLed stuff and your modifications to that source) to anyone you sell the product to. What this means is that if you have a library foo that is under the GPL and you add a function to it you must provide the source code to foo plus your changes to foo to anyone who buys your product (if they ask for it). If, however, you just use library foo in your code and make no changes to the library then you only have to provide the source to foo (not your application).
It is my (possibly flawed) understanding that the Artistic license only requires that you credit the original others and clearly mark your modifications (so that the original authors don't get bug reports for your modifications). On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 03:31, Timothy Johnson wrote: > > You might want to do some research on the GPL license and the Artistic > License. The upshot of most of these is that you can reuse people's code as > long as you give them credit. Technically I think this means that you need > to find out who wrote the modules you use. Someone else might have more > insight on this. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Mayank Ahuja > To: PERL > Sent: 4/15/02 11:12 PM > Subject: Perl License > > Hi Group, > > > I have an application which uses Perl and many modules. The application > is like an installer for my other programs (not written in Perl). Since > the whole bundle is a commercial package, which all licenses do i need > to get for Perl (I heard of something like GNU license). Is it free? > Conditions? > Can somebody please give me a basic idea and send me link to details? > > Thanks. > > > -- > Regards > Mayank > > "The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra" > -Anon > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Today is Sweetmorn the 33rd day of Discord in the YOLD 3168 Grudnuk demand sustenance! Missile Address: 33:48:3.521N 84:23:34.786W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
