Re: Qestion on Restrictions on using GLP code / models

If you want to avoid the GPL, see if you can get a different license
from the author(s) of the code and/or model(s).

Part of the beauty of "Free" is the freedom to offer multiple licenses
for the same code. Lots of folks do so - TrollTech comes to mind as a
classic example.

-Alex

--- Bryan.ONeal@asu.edu wrote:
> Just out of curiosity, If I base a commercial project on a GPL
> project
> 1) Are their any restrictions on profits generated?
> 2) If I never sell or otherwise distribute my code do I have to
> release my
> code?
>
> Example: If I set up a database of education institutions with
> licensed slides
> of famous art, and then charged for membership so these institutions
> could
> distribute their work to each other. And 30% of the code I used came
> from a
> dead source forge project. Or the model (either the business model or
> the
> site/code model) came from a dead open source project. Would I have
> to
> release my code under the GPL? And what does release entail?
>
> And if I did not use GPL models, but I have been known to read GPL
> models can
> some one who latter finds a similar GPL model sue me (or more
> importantly my
> customers) to open said code under the assumption that I may have
> seen said
> model and inadvertently integrated its concepts into my work?
>
> Thanks :)
>

> Signed,
>     To lazy to read the GPL for himself ;)

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