[osflash] Commercial use of OSFlash projects?

[hank williams]

Every project is under a different license, but very few people use
GPL for just the reason you are concerned about. For the most part
people seem to use LGPL or other licenses for which this is not a
problem. If something is GPL and there are many contributors then it
gets very hard because you would have to get approval from all the
contributors.

Regards,
Hank

On 9/9/06, Alias™ <aliasrob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was wondering - say, for example, I wanted to use part of an OS project in
> a commercial project (say, DENG, for example), what exactly would the legal
> ramifications of this be? Just for the sake of the argument, let's pretend
> it's for some hugely evil corporation, e.g. Microsoft, Phillip Morris, etc.
>
> I know that with stuff released under the Apache licence there is no issue
> with this, but what about the GPL/BSD/other?
>
> Would there be any way around these issues, if any? Say, obtaining
> permission from the author/paying a commercial use fee? If the source is not
> modified, does the GPL in fact have any effect in this case?
>
> Just wondering,
> Alias
>
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