"Some of the most successful OSS technology is licensed under the GNU General Public License or GPL. The GPL mandates that any software that incorporates source code already licensed under the GPL will itself become subject to the GPL. When the resulting software product is distributed, its creator must make the entire source code base freely available to everyone, at no additional charge. This viral aspect of the GPL poses a threat to the intellectual property of any organization making use of it. It also fundamentally undermines the independent commercial software sector because it effectively makes it impossible to distribute software on a basis where recipients pay for the product rather than just the cost of distribution."
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/exec/craig/05-03sharedsource.mspx
....Mission Accomplished (tm) ;D
Simetrical-3 wrote:
On 9/18/07, Parker Conrad parker@wikinvest.com wrote:
- The modifications Wikinvest made to MediaWiki are not GPL (this isn't
a requirement of the GPL license)
Well, not as long as you don't distribute them. As soon as you distribute them to anyone at all (outside your own organization), you need to release them under the GPL, with everything that implies. That's kind of the point of the GPL. :) (Of course, that only applies if the modifications are actually integrated with MediaWiki, not if they're separate applications that happen to use the same database, for instance.)
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