[osflash] Commercial use of OSFlash projects?

[Ray Chuan]

Hi,
it depends on the project.

GPL: not link friendly in commerical apps
LGPL: link friendly, but has some other problems that I can't quite recall
BSD/MIT: few restrictions

There are a lot more out there like Mozilla, Creative Commons, etc but
those are the more common ones.

On 9/10/06, 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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Cheers,
Ray Chuan