On 17 Jan 2008, at 08:02, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 17:49, Roberto Padovani wrote:
Given that I don't have Delphi, suppose that company X ask me to make
a software for them. I might give them the software, with full source
code and a GPL licence note every here and there, and ask money for
the _design_ of the software, instead of the software itself.
Another misunderstanding of the GPL. Of course you are allowed to
charge
money for your software.
But given it is GPL your customer may decide to redistribute the
source,
as you gave him explicit permission with the GPL to do so. It would
simply put all your other code under GPL, too.
And that is yet another misunderstanding of the GPL: it would *not*
automatically make all the other code of that program GPL.
If you do not license the rest of the source code under the GPL (or
under a GPL-compatible license), you are simply infringing on the
copyright of the author(s) of the GPL code: your are using that code
in a way which is not allowed by the GPL. You can solve this in two ways
a) license the rest of the source code of that program under the GPL
or a GPL-compatible license
b) stop distributing the program containing GPL code (and possibly
replace the GPL code with otherwise licensed code, and then distribute
the rewritten program)
In any case, whoever receives a program containing a mixture of GPL
and GPL-incompatible code, is not allowed to further distribute it
either (because he would infringe on the copyright of author(s) of the
GPL code just as much as the initial distributor).
Jonas
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