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Does the GPL prevent someone from making money? I think it only forces everyone to publish their source code.
by RealStickman_ 6y ago
Does the GPL prevent someone from making money? I think it only forces everyone to publish their source code.
- MaxBarraclough 6y agoRoughly speaking that's correct. The GPL isn't hostile to paid means of distributing a program, but it's hostile to distributing binaries while deliberately obstructing access to source-code. [0] An aside in the interests of precision: the GPL doesn't force 'everyone' to publish their source. If your fork is private and is never distributed at all, you aren't obligated to make your source-code available, and you don't even need to tell anyone you have your own fork. The Affero GPL licence differs from the standard GPL, on this point. [0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMon...
- pabs3 6y agoThe GPL doesn't force publication of source code, just distribution of source to the folks you distribute binaries to.