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Subject: Re: Legal questions about GNU GPL

Author: Frank Mueller

Date: 10:19:42 09/17/05

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>>Toga II used a lot of Fruit 2.1 open source code and it itself is open source
>>code. Can the author of Toga II use parts of this code to make his own closed
>>code commercial program?
>>
>>-Norm
>
>The answer to the second question is no.
>Only fabien can use the code of Fruit in a commercial version.

Principally, GPL would allow the Toga author too to sell his modified programme
for money, provided that he will enclose all sources. However, in praxi it will
only be a theoretical scenario, because buyer of such software on his part could
copy, distribute and modify the software at his own discretion.

Frank



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