The GPL does not require you to distribute anything. It only says
that if you do, you must distribute under the GPL.
You can always choose not to distribute; or sell all the rights to the
software to someone else; or charge a large fee to develop something
you release under GPL; or charge a fee for distributing something you
created under GPL.
Once and for all: The GPL never requires you to do anything; only
restricts the way you distribute when or if YOU CHOOSE to do thay.
If someone can show me that there is any reason why WebMacro can't
be used to build commercial and corporate websites internally, I will
make a new license because I want people to have the right to do that.
Justin
Quoting Formanek Gary L ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> I also need more clarification - particularly - "You can build applications
> based on WebMacro and transfer
> copyright to them to someone else.".
>
> I don't want to use software or libraries which require me to distribute
> "my" source, binary or otherwise to others. I have no problem distributing
> the software or libraries I use (such as Webmacro), but anything I add to my
> site or application which is my source code or binaries, I don't want to
> distribute. I hate to sound selfish here, but if you are in the development
> business, that is your livelyhood. Do you really want to give that away just
> because you use free software? I would prefer to buy the development
> software and not be forced to give mine away.
>
> There are other issues such as the hassle of maintaining a place or process
> for giving it to someone, bugs that might come up and people expect you to
> fix, etc.
>
> When I think of free, this is what I think of:
>
> * a product I can use wherever, whenever, however I want with no
> licensing implications or concerns
> * a product I don't have to think about bundling with to pass on or
> otherwise, particularly with my software source or binaries
> * a product that is probably less than a commercial product as I would
> expect the orginator to sell something above and beyond (how else can he/she
> afford to develop???) - everyone has to make a living somehow
> * no hassle about some sort of licensing scheme - I don't want to
> think about someone coming back later or me having to refer back to the
> license to see if I can use it for a different place or site that it
> originally destined for
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gary
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Justin Wells [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 12:36 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: webmacro
> >
> > Quoting Jason Hunter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > >
> > > Justin,
> > >
> > > I don't want this to spark a long thread, but I would like some
> > > clarification. Can I, without contacting anyone, use WebMacro as part
> > > of a corporate web site, keeping all the source to the site's content
> > > private -- and do I retain the option to sell the source to the content
> > > later under whatever license I like?
> >
> > You can use webMacro on a corporate or commercial or any other kind
> > of site. You can build applications based on WebMacro and transfer
> > copyright to them to someone else. In both cases you can keep your
> > sources proprietary, and do not need to contact anyone.
> >
> > Thus you can put it to commercial use, sell it to someone else, or write
> > software for someone else under contract.
> >
> > I would call that commercial use. I would definately call that free.
> >
> > I expect 99% of people to use it that way for free, for commercial profit,
> > or any other use. You cannot distribute or sublicense what you build under
> > any license you like; the GPL says derived works when distributed must be
> > distributed under the GPL--conferring the exact same benefits on others as
> > you derived from WebMacro.
> >
> > For more on the GPL and its underlying free software philosophy,
> > read this and other articles from the GNU/FSF project:
> >
> > http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
> >
> > You can read a copy of the GPL itself for clarification:
> >
> > Free Software Foundation: http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html
> > WebMacro.org http://www.webmacro.org/COPYING
> >
> > You can do anything with WebMacro that you can do with Linux; they
> > are under the exact same license.
> >
> > Justin
> >
> >
> > >
> > > Here's hoping this stays on topic.
> > >
> > > -jh-
> > >
> > > --
> > > Jason Hunter
> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Book: http://www.servlets.com/book
> > > Article: http://www.javaworld.com/jw-12-1998/jw-12-servletapi.html
> > >
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