Rev/Livecode project and GPL Licenses

[Mark Schonewille]

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).

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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.