Re: GPL question, can open source code can be used to prop. platform?
From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 07/27/04
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Date: 27 Jul 2004 15:37:55 GMT
Michael Heiming <michael+USENET@www.heiming.de> writes:
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]In comp.os.linux.networking Santa <santa19992000@yahoo.com> suggested:
]> Can opensource code (RH/Debian/SUSE) modified for inhouse firewall
]> platform and can be sold in for commercial use?. Is this GPL coers
]> this?. Or Is there any royalty or licensing fee has to pay per unit?.
]> What if some modifications does for some of the code?. Thanks.
]In-house you can do what you like with the code. If you want to
]sell it, even if it's in some kind of "black-box", you have to make
]the source available on request. Or you just broke the GPL.
You MUST also release it to them under the GPL so that they can copy and
distribute it if they so desire. YOu cannot remove from them the rights you
obtained via the GPL.
If the code is LGPL however, then you can release your stuff as proprietary
code, but must make the LGPL library available as source code.
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