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GPL is open source(shitty open source, but open source nonetheless), yet you can't use that code commercially. Edit for downvotes: Perhaps I should have been m
by clarky07 13y ago
GPL is open source(shitty open source, but open source nonetheless), yet you can't use that code commercially.
Edit for downvotes: Perhaps I should have been more clear. As this is iOS code, you cannot in fact use it commercially. GPL code is not allowed on the App Store. Period.
- dragonwriter 13y agoYou can use GPL code commercially (and plenty of companies do), what you can't do is relicense it under a proprietary license.
- nosefrog 13y agoYou'd have to explain that to Richard Stallman, who wrote the GPL and also sold Emacs and other free[1] software commercially during the 80s and 90s. [1]: free software and open source software are accepted by the Free Software Foundation and the Open Source Initiative as being pretty much the same thing (ie 99% of OSI-approved open source licenses are also FSF-approved, and vice versa).
- ajross 13y agoA quarter century after this thing was published and we still read stuff like this on the internet?
- gojomo 13y agoGPL may make certain commercial models harder, but there's no "can't use" prohibition in the license. The condition on all potential uses (commercial and non-commercial) is the same: your derivative source code must remain available under the same terms.