RE: RPG 'CPAN' site

On Thursday 28 February 2002 9:48 pm, Bob Cozzi (RPGIV) wrote:
> YES

No - see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#TheGPLSaysModifiedVersions and
the following paragraph

> Bob Cozzi

Original message:
On Thursday 28 February 2002 9:37 pm, John Taylor wrote:
> > The iSeries-toolkit is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
> > modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version
> > 2, as published by the Free Software Foundation.
>
> That's what I thought. Now, can someone who understands the legal
> mumbo-jumbo explain the following excerpt from the GPL:
>
> "b) You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in
>     whole or in part contains or is derived from the Program or any
>     part thereof, to be licensed as a whole at no charge to all third
>     parties under the terms of this License."
>
> Doesn't this mean I can't charge for an application that I've
> developed, if said application makes use any Toolkit code?

You can charge for the application, but you can't charge for the source,
which can be distributed along with the binaries, or made available
separately. The GPL FAQ http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html may, or
may not ;-), make things clearer.

> John Taylor

Regards, Martin
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