Re: lprng license
On 29 Jan 1999, John Hasler wrote:
> > The GNU GPL does limit commercial use--you can't incorporate GPL'd code
> > into your commercial product if you aren't going to distribute source
> > code and the right to redistribute.
>
> The GPL does not limit use in any way:
>
> Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
> covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running
> the Program is not restricted,....
*sigh*
What I said was clear enough.
It doesn't limit 'use of the program in a commercial environment'. It
limits 'commercial use of the code, by modifying it and selling the
resultant binaries without providing source'.
>
> > This is, IMO, what the author is referring to.
>
> It isn't what he said.
It is what I understood by what he said.
Jules
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