nolapro license ????

Madison Kelly linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 6 15:08:18 UTC 2008


Dave Cramer wrote:
> The latest linux journal has an article about nolapro; a great looking 
> web based accounting package.
> 
> Now apparently this is not opensource, but free. Since it's php they do 
> provide the source implicitly. However they have a much more restrictive 
> license than the GPL.
> 
> So I'm no expert on the GPL but since they are using GPL modules, don't 
> they have to license this with the GPL ?
> 
> Dave

As I understand it, and IANAL, you can use GPL'ed modules with a non GPL 
program fine. It's only a problem if you take the code from the modules 
and use them directly in non-GPL'ed code.

Madi
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