From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at (Bernd Petrovitsch) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2012 22:26:52 +0100 Subject: [OT] Can a commercial company use software with GPLv2 for free? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1353014816.22416.93.camel@thorin> To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org List-Id: kernelnewbies.lists.kernelnewbies.org 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 -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at LUGA : http://www.luga.at