From: bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at (Bernd Petrovitsch)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: [OT] Can a commercial company use software with GPLv2 for free?
Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:26:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1353014816.22416.93.camel@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPerbBwWvK7TKN3+5M6yLUF8gxwqHGzcMObjMKoPdgz9WGuJAw@mail.gmail.com>
Hi!
On Don, 2012-11-15 at 10:10 -0800, hz hanks wrote:
[...]
> Can a commercial company use software with GPLv2 for free?
Everyone can use GPLv2 software "free as in speech" provided it follows
the rules of the GPLv2.
The rights and duties defined by the GPLv2 have absolutely nothing to do
with commercial or non-commercial.
And the opposite of "free software" is "proprietary software".
BTW are they any non-commercial companies?
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-15 21:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-15 18:10 [OT] Can a commercial company use software with GPLv2 for free? hz hanks
2012-11-15 18:27 ` Bjørn Mork
2012-11-15 21:26 ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2012-11-15 21:34 ` Mohammed Gamal
2012-11-16 12:09 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2012-11-16 13:36 ` Greg Freemyer
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