Licensing

[Anthony E. Greene]

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On Tue, 26 Mar 2002, Oyvind A. Holm wrote:
>Yes, indeed. The GNU General Public License allows you to use the
>program commercially without paying any royalties. If you use parts of
>the source in other programs or link any part of it into another
>program, you have to share the source code of this program with the
>public.

Not quite.

If you distribute binaries built from modified source, then you must make 
the modified source available to the recipients of the modified binaries.

You don't have to make the source available to "the public" unless you
distribute binaries to "the public", and you don't have to distribute the
code at all if you don't distribute the binaries.

The binaries and code remain under the GPL, so if they are distributed, the 
recipients can modify and/or redistribute them if they wish, according to 
the GPL.


Tony
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