Mark Komarinski said:
> Absolutely NOT!
>
> The GPL says two things in big important letters:
>
> 1) You can sell a product for what the market will bear
> 2) You have to provide the source code to your product
>
> Point #1 is where a lot of companies (RedHat, Corel, SuSe, etc)
> make their money. Almost all the software on their CD is
> GPL'd, and yet they sell the CD. This is allowed as part of the
> GPL.
Also, Apache is not under the GPL (which, as you point out, is
anti-proprietary, not anti-commercial). The Apache license is a modified BSD,
and does allow proprietary extensions.
>
> Now, in answer to the original question of commercial Apache,
> are you looking for commercial support, pre-packaged Apache, what?
> There's a company in Bedford ( NuSphere ) that was with VA at SoftPro.
> NuSphere sells Apache, PHP, and MySQL on a CD with some other (GPL'd)
> goodies thrown in, plus support. If your boss is just looking for
> a shrink-wrapped box, this may be what you want. It's about $80.
>
> -Mark
And there are other companies around that will do (for the right price),
apache support (hint, hint)
>
> Kurth Bemis wrote:
> >
> > At 01:44 PM 2/16/2001, Vince McHugh wrote:
> >
> > commercial goes against the GPL and apache licences i believe. besides -
> > why would you want anything commercial?
> >
> > ~kurth
> >
> > >
> > > My MIS director was asking me if there is a
> > >"commercial version" of Apache Web Server. Since I do
> > >not know the answer to that I told him I would pose
> > >the question to this illustrious group.
jeff
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