Doubts about community version

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Doubts about community version

Post by glpunzi » Sat Jul 13, 2013 9:31 am

Hi,

I see there are now a community edition, free for opensource projects.

What kind of license enduser application must have? There are a lot of OSS licenses.

I don't have problem with open the source of my app (maybe we will purchase commercial license, but source of most of my projects probably will be opensource anyway), but I wouldn't like to end user resell it.

It's possible with community, to develop opensource end users apps, but with restriction of resell it?

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Re: Doubts about community version

Post by shaosean » Sun Jul 14, 2013 7:31 am

Unless there is something in the stack file that marks a file as being created in the Community version, I guess you can use whatever license you want, but I would recommend a Commercial license and just releasing your stack files with whatever license you want (probably better for you legally and morally ;-) )

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Re: Doubts about community version

Post by FourthWorld » Sun Jul 14, 2013 3:25 pm

Works created with the Community Edition inherit the freedoms and responsibilities of its governing license, the GNU Public License version 3:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

As Sean noted, works created with the Commercial Edition grant you the additional freedom to use a proprietary license, or most other license options you may consider.
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