From: Steve Coltrin <spcoltri@...>
Date: 2001-08-15T05:50:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19735] Re: General (GUI/license) questions

Tobias DiPasquale <anany@ece.villanova.edu> writes:

> Armin Roehrl wrote:

> > GPL: Everybody can use your software, but they can't sell it if it's part
> > of a bigger project; i.e. the Linux-Kernel is GPL
 
> Code can still be sold under GPL, you simply have to provide the client with
> the source code.

And cannot restrain the client from disseminating the source code further.

> However, under the GPL, any code that is integrated with
> non-GPL code becomes GPL'd.

And combined with the prior point, this is what makes the GPL poison to
commercial programming.

> This does not happen with the LGPL. There is the 
> essential difference. 

Yep.

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