Hi Massimo,
Do you mean when we use a part of web2py then our application will use
GPL license. If it is a commercial product then how do we consider
closing source although it is using GPL license?
Regards,
Kutlu
On Nov 13, 4:49 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> Sorry no. In my view BSD protects developers (they have to be
> mentioned in derivative products, product gets used more, more
> developers can use it) while GPL protects users (developers cannot
> stop open source development and create a closed source commercial
> derivative). web2py is about protecting users. Linux is a successful
> OS because it is GPL.
>
> On Nov 13, 7:59 am, Douglas Soares de Andrade <dsandr...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Em Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:45:34 -0800 (PST)
> > mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> escreveu:
>
> > > yes. need latest web2py stable
>
> > > from gluon.template import render
> > > print render(content='{{for i in range(10)}}{{=a}}{{pass}}',context=
> > > {'a':'hello\n'})
>
> > > if you want to use the helpers you also need to import them
>
> > > from gluon.template import render
> > > from gluon.html import *
> > > print render(content='{{for i in range(10)}}{{=a}}{{pass}}',context=
> > > {'a':DIV('hello')})
>
> > > You can use context='..' or stream=open(...) or filename='...', you
> > > can also pass a path=... required for lookup in case the tamplate
> > > content contains {{include...}} {{extend...}}
>
> > > If you do this your code will be bound to be GPL2 because web2py
> > > source is GPL2.
>
> > Hi Massimo,
>
> > Dont you think it could be an issue ? What about if you have someone
> > that likes web2py template but needs to create commercial apps ?
>
> > Cant we use bsd license or even better, LGPL ?
>
> > Im asking this, because PySide (LGPL bindings to Qt4) were created
> > (among other things) because of PyQt licensing.- Hide quoted text -
>
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