At 3:17 PM +0200 10/9/07, Jason Viloria wrote: ... >I've written various webapps commercially and on delivering the finished >product I ask the client to install tomcat and mysql connector/J. Does >this mean the webapp I have delivered needs to be under GPL?. I have >always assumed this was not the case since I am not exactly deriving any >code from tomcat or mysql. > >So now after following this thread, I am now confused. Work for hire that you deliver to the customer is not "published", so the GPL does not require release of the source code (though the customer probably expects you to deliver it to them). If the customer then distributes the program, that is "publication", and the GPL requires the source code to be made available in a similar manner. Assuming, of course, that your work is a "derived work" according to the GPL. -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
