> ----- Original Message ----- > From: Anthony > Sent: 12/17/10 03:33 AM > To: web2py-users > Subject: [web2py] Re: it case you missed it...
> I guess it seems odd to say if you build an app using the entire > web2py framework, then you can close source your app, but if you build Entire _unmodified_ web2py framework. Also, it's not 'build', but 'distribute'. Big difference. If you are not sharing it with anyone, you can do whatever you want. > your app using only part of the web2py framework, you must share your > app. For example, suppose someone plugs the DAL into Flask and builds Ideally yes. But there's one catch. The keyword is _distribute_ not _build_. I hope it clears things up a bit. Someone has also cleverly noted tha if you build your app for your client using whatever GPL tools you stumbled upon, you are only required to share the source code with the client because you're distributing it to your client only. You don't actually have to put it some place where everyone can see. That's allowed. So, it's not like you have to share it with the rest of the world. In case of web2py as a whole, with GPLv2 + commercial exception, you don't even have to do that, unless you've modified web2py somehow, or used pieces of it in your application code (where 'pieces of it' excludes the welcome app). -- Branko Vukelic branko.vuke...@gmx.com http://www.brankovukelic.com/ http://flickr.com/photos/foxbunny
