Entries tagged with “gpl”

General Public License & start-ups

Posted by Dave Broadwin on September 25, 2009
Prithvi Tanwar, an associate at Foley who does a lot work with us at the EEC, recently had occasion to consider the General Public License in the context of start-ups.  This resulted in the following comments which I thought would make a useful post. A start-up wants to develop its online application using scripts licensed under the GNU General Public License (“GPL”). What are the potential ramifications? Any modifications and works derived from a script or product that is licensed under the GPL must themselves be licensed under the terms of the GPL when distributed to third parties (they must be made... More
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