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jQuery is dual-licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses - you can choose whichever you want. If you want your code to be closed source, you want the MIT license.
by madhouse 16y ago
jQuery is dual-licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses - you can choose whichever you want. If you want your code to be closed source, you want the MIT license.
You do not have to do anything about that - you can safely use it without any further thought.
What you need to pay attention to, is that while you CAN bundle GPL'd code with closed source code, you cannot use or derive from GPL'd code, unless your code is under the GPL too.
Thus, as long as you stick to MIT/Apache/BSD/LGPL libraries, you're safe. You can bundle GPL'd programs with your system, but you can't use and extend those sources, unless you release those parts under the GPL too.
- 9ec4c12949a4f3 16y agoThis makes sense now. Okay so just to confirm I'm on the same page... If I write my own code from scratch, but I'm using the library from Jquery, it's running on apache, it connects to mysql, it does whatever, that's fine I'm using that software as part of the box I wish to re-sell because I didn't modify and re-sell that software, I'm selling the configuration of the server and my code?
- madhouse 16y agoThat's pretty much correct. I'm not a lawyer, either, mind you, but that has been my understanding =)