Dave is, as usual, 100% correct. A bad example on my part. It is only if you redistribute your app where the GPL's viral aspects come into play
A mistake I paid dearly for in the past where our some of internal processes came into play when rolling a GPL app into one of our products. Again humbled. G On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 7:50 PM, Dave Watts <dwa...@figleaf.com> wrote: > > > The important part for me is that it is LGPL which means ppl can roll a > CF > > runtime into commercial offerings with out having to open source their > apps. > > I am not a big fan of GPL because if ppl use GPL apps on any internal > apps > > such as intranets that handle a lot internal business processes (Read: > The > > internal workings of their business), they would have to open source > thier > > entire intranet. That can be a "very bad thing" for a business. > > This is not correct. It's ten kinds of wrong. If you aren't > redistributing applications, you have no need to provide source code. > And even if you are redistributing applications, you wouldn't > necessarily have to "open source the entire intranet". > > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers in Washington DC, Atlanta, > Chicago, Baltimore, Northern Virginia, or on-site at your location. > Visit http://training.figleaf.com/ for more information! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:321149 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4