[H-GEN] GPL licensing

[Nick Kwiatkowski]

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Jason Parker-Burlingham wrote:
> Sandra Milne <fakungabubu at internode.on.net> writes:
>
> > Nick Kwiatkowski wrote:
> >> Unfortunately, WineX is not based upon the wine code base. WineX is
> >> based on the "rewind" stream, which is an off shoot, and people
> >> like transgaming can't under the GPL license charge money for
> >> additions to GPL code [1].
> > Isn't this whole 'you can't charge money for a GPL fork' an urban
> > myth? I'm fairly certain you can, you just can't discriminate etc etc.
>
> You can charge money for a copy of a GPLed program, but no matter
> whether you sell it or give it away for free, you have to give (FSVO
> "give") the recipient a copy of the source code, too.
>

I was more thinking about the fact that there are issues with using a
GPL/LGPL components within a commerical application - mainly from a GPL
point and including GPL component into an application. Especially in the
context of wine and refering to the branch rewind -
http://rewind.sourceforge.net/  which WineX is based upon.

Ciao,

Nik

Nickolas Kwiatkowski
IT Architect
AMS Solutions Enablement (ASE)
Application Management Services
IBM Global Services
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