Hi, I know that this is not true. Under GPL, you can ALWAYS sell your software commercially, but if you do, you have to *offer* the source code as well. When you *offer* the source code, the buyer can decide to have *no interest* in the source code, which means that in some cases you may be distributing a compiled app only. (I know this for sure, but I still don't accept any responsibility for decisions that are based on this statement).
-- Best regards, Mark Schonewille Economy-x-Talk Consulting and Software Engineering Homepage: http://economy-x-talk.com Twitter: http://twitter.com/xtalkprogrammer KvK: 50277553 New: Download the Installer Maker Plugin 1.6 for LiveCode here http://qery.us/ce On 15 apr 2011, at 06:49, Scott McDonald wrote: > I looked into this a while back and my understanding was: > > * If you link to a library released under the GPL terms, then you cannot > sell your product commercially. > > * But if the library is released under the LGPL terms (which are different), > then it is OK to sell your product commercially. > > * If your software uses a GPL library that is hosted on a server then that > is fine for commercial software. > > * But if your user needs to download the GPL software (or you want to > include it in your download bundle) then your product cannot be sold > commercially if it links to it. > > As mentioned above these are just my conclusions, and I am not a lawyer. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
