----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Starling"
<tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>
On 30/12/11 08:30, Dan Collins wrote:
On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Huib Laurens
<sterkebak(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
It doesn't need to be compatible or
open-source right?
GPL 2.0 section 2 b:
b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any part
thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third parties
under the terms of this License.
You can modify GPL software for private use. That clause only kicks in
when you "distribute or publish" the work, so you're generally OK if
you're just using it within a single company. Maybe that's what Huib
meant by "closed source".
And since we're not under the *Affero* GPL, you can modify it, *and make it
publicly available*, and still not be constrained by the licence (I don't
think I've got that backwards, do I?)
Cheers,
-- jra
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