On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Rehan <[email protected]> wrote:
> I don't believe that is the case but then I am not a lawyer.
>
> As I understand it, under the gpl, one can charge a small amount to
> cover distribution costs and one can sell support contracts. One cannot
> "sell the software as long as sources are freely available".
>

VirtualBox is dual licensed, so customers can choose which license
they want. VMlite, which is also a customer, can choose the
proprietary VBox license, and keep sources closed.

Same trick works for Qt library. Skype and Google Earth are based on
it, but both are closed source projects.

-- 
-Alexey Eromenko "Technologov"

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