Posted by
Paolo Ariano on
May 21, 2007; 8:53am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Correction-on-GPL-restrictions-was-Re-sell-ImageJ-tp3699405p3699407.html
Il giorno ven, 18/05/2007 alle 19.09 +0200, Adrian Daerr ha scritto:
> Thank you very much for correcting my mistake, my excuse to all for
> having carelessly produced and propagated a false statement on the GPL !
no problem.
> The "problem" (not mine! but maybe for some companies) I wanted to
> allude to is: you cannot sell (even offer for free download ?) a
> modification of ImageJ (or a bundle ImageJ+plugins*) without making its
> source code available under the GPL as well. Am I wrong again ?
ImageJ is not under GPL.
A lot of plugins are under GPL.
ImageJ "is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public
domain" so you can do wathever you want: close it, rename and sell it,
sell it as ImageJ ...
Plugins under GPL are copyrighted and nobody, except for the author, can
change the license BUT you can sell and distribute GPL code, please for
any question see
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html ;)
I don't think this thread is OT.
Is full of company selling and reselling GPL software, it is business
world ...
till next
paolo
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