[OT] Can a commercial company use software with GPLv2 for free?

[Mohammed Gamal]

Hi,
It also depends on what you mean by 'use'. If it is 'using' the GPLv2
code in your commercial software projects then you can not do that
unless your code is also GPL. But if you mean 'use' as in "We are a
graphic design company and we 'use' GIMP for commercial purposes (i.e
making posters, ads ... etc)", then of course you can use it.

Regards,
Mohammed

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 11:26 PM, Bernd Petrovitsch
<bernd at petrovitsch.priv.at> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Don, 2012-11-15 at 10:10 -0800, hz hanks wrote:
> [...]
>> Can a commercial company use software with GPLv2 for free?
>
> Everyone can use GPLv2 software "free as in speech" provided it follows
> the rules of the GPLv2.
> The rights and duties defined by the GPLv2 have absolutely nothing to do
> with commercial or non-commercial.
> And the opposite of "free software" is "proprietary software".
>
> BTW are they any non-commercial companies?
>
>         Bernd
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