Re: GPL

On Mon, 11 Nov 2002, Arkady V.Belousov wrote:

> BO> DRDOS and we're not (Caldera made one source release of "Open"DOS with an
> BO> extremely stupid license, and then made it closed again -- one good way
> BO> NOT too make friends among OSS and Free Software developers).
>
>      Why? You mean, that GPL, unlike OSS/FS, not allows to change license?
> As I understand, GPL license also may be changed if all copyright holders
> convinced.

The GPL _is_ an OSS/FS license. OpenDOS never was GPLed.

>      Well, I have another (theoretical, yet?) question: how to make moneys
> with GPLed software. For example (all below are as I understand):

You can make as much money as you like out of support, distribution,
custom changes, and so on. You just cannot stop anyone from
redistributing the thing.

>      Also, about commercial software. As I understand, GPLed software may be
> used/distributed with (not included, but used by/with) commercial software.
> For example, may I make some commercial (i.e. closed and/or restricted in
> distribution/running) program, which will run under FreeDOS (for example,
> some disk restoring program, which will run from floppy with FreeDOS) or run
> other GPLed program (say, archiver to make backups)?

Yes. You are not allowed to link GPLed code with non-GPL-compatible code,
that's it.

Bart