On Sat, Dec 11, 2010 at 9:49 PM, VP <[email protected]> wrote: > My understanding is this. The apps that you develop with Web2py does > not have to be GPL, and can be licensed in any way you want. (I am > unsure if this violates GPL's terms or not, but this is what I think > how web2py's licensing permits). > > What is GPL is the web2py framework itself. So, as long as your app > does not touch web2py's core and stay within web2py/applications/ > yourapp directory, that should be okay. On the other hand, if you > want to take web2py add features to it, modify it, then it will have > to be GPL.
There's one catch, though. If a piece of code is a template that comes with web2py (which means the template code is also GPL), does the template, which is covered by GPL, also prevent you from distributing templates as binary-only. I don't mean HTML etc. Those are static files anyway. I mean the .py templates like the db.py template that is included in the welcome app. When you start off, 100% of your app is comprised of GPL'd code from the welcome app. -- Branko Vukelić [email protected] [email protected] Check out my blog: http://www.brankovukelic.com/ Check out my portfolio: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxbunny/ Registered Linux user #438078 (http://counter.li.org/) I hang out on identi.ca: http://identi.ca/foxbunny Gimp Brushmakers Guild http://bit.ly/gbg-group
