Hello Guys,
I was trying to install dansguardian from FreeBSD ports and I got the following error:
By visiting their website I've found that:
1. "Dansguardian v.2 is licensed under the GPL version 2"
2. I cannot use that software for commercial purposes.
Now from my understanding, I cannot use sourcecode of a GPLv2 software to make a commercial program. If I use GPL I must release the modified sourcecode of my app for free.
But compiling (without modifying) of an open source software and selling the binaries, this is allowed.
Red Hat sells their RHEL distribution for big money, without buying any license from open source developers of every app that is in that distro.
So GPL license reffers to source code not to binary.
If I am right then people from dansguardian are not licensing that sofware as GPL because they not allow commercial use.
Here is how they understand GPL2:
"[2] Commercial Use: Use (running, selling, installing for a charge, installing as part of a service, developing further and selling, using as part of a product) by any commercial or non-commercial organisation. Commercial use specifically excludes use (running and installing) by educational establishments and others listed under non-commercial use. Commercial use specifically excludes the act of selling DansGuardian 2 as part of an unix-like OS distribution by companies such as RedHat or Mandrake or their resellers."
You can read all here: http://dansguardian.org/index.php?page=copyright2 .
Then my question: is dansguardian really GPL? Can I use precompiled binaries from them and make money of it?
I was trying to install dansguardian from FreeBSD ports and I got the following error:
Code:
dev# cd /usr/ports/www/dansguardian
dev# make install clean
===> dansguardian-2.10.0.3 commercial source download is restricted.
Please visit and read http://dansguardian.org/index.php?page=copyright2 and
download dansguardian-2.10.0.3.tar.gz into /usr/ports/distfiles before running
make.
*** Error code 1
By visiting their website I've found that:
1. "Dansguardian v.2 is licensed under the GPL version 2"
2. I cannot use that software for commercial purposes.
Now from my understanding, I cannot use sourcecode of a GPLv2 software to make a commercial program. If I use GPL I must release the modified sourcecode of my app for free.
But compiling (without modifying) of an open source software and selling the binaries, this is allowed.
Red Hat sells their RHEL distribution for big money, without buying any license from open source developers of every app that is in that distro.
So GPL license reffers to source code not to binary.
If I am right then people from dansguardian are not licensing that sofware as GPL because they not allow commercial use.
Here is how they understand GPL2:
"[2] Commercial Use: Use (running, selling, installing for a charge, installing as part of a service, developing further and selling, using as part of a product) by any commercial or non-commercial organisation. Commercial use specifically excludes use (running and installing) by educational establishments and others listed under non-commercial use. Commercial use specifically excludes the act of selling DansGuardian 2 as part of an unix-like OS distribution by companies such as RedHat or Mandrake or their resellers."
You can read all here: http://dansguardian.org/index.php?page=copyright2 .
Then my question: is dansguardian really GPL? Can I use precompiled binaries from them and make money of it?