Re: Use of GNUstep in a commercial application

[Adam Fedor]

On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:10 PM, Michael Hopkins wrote:

> I am an IT/maths person first, a businessman third and a non- 
> lawyer.  ;o)
>
> I wonder if someone here could tell me in laymans terms whether or  
> not we
> are allowed to use (unchanged) GNUstep code/libraries in an  
> application that
> we host on a server somewhere and that people would log in to our  
> server and
> pay to use.  Is this:

The GNUstep *Libraries* are under the LGPL, which means you can use  
them in any program, even non-free programs without having to give up  
any rights to your non-free program.  GNUstep *Tools* are under the  
normal GPL, which means you need to give back any changes to the  
tools or anything that uses the tools.

FYI, Even under the GPL, you can charge anything you want to use a  
program, as long as you give away the source code :-)