nolapro license ????

Dave Cramer davec-zxk95TxsVYDyHADnj0MGvQC/G2K4zDHf at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 6 15:19:56 UTC 2008


Well,

They have built a product on top of GPL'd code, much like linksys,  
etc. They used linux as the basis of the product. This product is  
based on top of mysql and a number of other GPL technologies,   
osCommerce for one.

Dave
On 6-Oct-08, at 11:08 AM, Madison Kelly wrote:

> 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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