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You are not required to give that first customer the source code with BSD. The only companies that make money on software containing GPL'd code are doing it se
by SoftwareMaven 13y ago
You are not required to give that first customer the source code with BSD.
The only companies that make money on software containing GPL'd code are doing it server-side with pre-GPLV3 or AGPL'd code. I've worked at a lot of companies that used and created open source software; and the rules are invariably the same: No GPL'd software allowed into the source tree, period.
- marcosdumay 13y ago<blockquote>You are not required to give that first customer the source code with BSD.</blockquote> That's only different if you are selling other people's software. If so, why should anybody have any simpaty?
- chc 13y agoIt's also true if you are selling original software that borrows one line of code from somebody else's software.
- dllthomas 13y agoYou could conceivably try to claim fair use, in that case, although it would undoubtedly be easier (and easy enough) to replace that one line with something original.