Posts Tagged ‘general public license’

It is the only software license (open source or otherwise) that tells you where you can’t run the software and forces distributors to give up their patent rights.

Stellar programs, preferably GNU with GPL’s.(General Public License)

In the categories of Media(specifically, something to crawl for streaming video/audio), Browsers, Communication/networking, and generally useful/cool programs.

A link will suffice, but background information is appreciated.

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We intend to use LGPL-based (GNU Lesser General public License) software to our business project that is privately used only. We modify, rewrite, rebuild large parts of that software to fit our need. We don’t sell or ship to any other partners, what we do is running our business on that software. Do we have to publish our modifications as open source? We do not want to do this because of our business-secret. Are we violate the law if keeping new modifications silent?

Can someone please explain this to me further? Here is my problem. I took a script that was released under the GPL and I have modified it and added a bunch of my own scripts to it. I don’t even think it is recognizable as the original script anymore.

Because of my own work being in there, I have decided not to make the script available for my clients. Does this go against the GPL or am I ok protecting it since my own stuff is in there?