Re: Commercial use

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  Yes, I know it is under GPL, but I feel we are in a gray zone when parts
  or the whole work is incorporated into a larger work.
er, which part is grey?
(i'm sorry, i just must be missing
something -- )

  In what ways is it required to show that the part is under GPL? Is it
  enougth it it is shown in documentation not usually received by the
  customer, and available if the customer manually browses the installed
  files?
how are they manually browsing them if
they didn't get the files?
hmm, i guess note section 3:

  3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it,
under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of
Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:

    a) Accompany it with the complete corresponding machine-readable
    source code, which must be distributed under the terms of Sections
    1 and 2 above on a medium customarily used for software interchange; or,

    b) Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three
    years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your
    cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete
    machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
    distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
    customarily used for software interchange; or,

    c) Accompany it with the information you received as to the offer
    to distribute corresponding source code. (This alternative is
    allowed only for noncommercial distribution and only if you
    received the program in object code or executable form with such
    an offer, in accord with Subsection b above.)

If distribution of executable or object code is made by offering
access to copy from a designated place, then offering equivalent
access to copy the source code from the same place counts as
distribution of the source code, even though third parties are not
compelled to copy the source along with the object code.

for copyrights (as with all laws) i guess we should
just worry about violating the spirit of it, remember
GNU copyright has 2 goals:
'preserving the free status of all derivatives of our
free software and of promoting the sharing and reuse of
software generally'

so the operative question to ask is,
is your intent in line with those 2 goals?

k

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