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Violation or Compliance with UVNC GNU Licensing?

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Violation or Compliance with UVNC GNU Licensing?

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I'm a little confused about what we can and can't do with the UVNC source code and product. Because UVNC and all flavors of VNC are considered opensource, wouldn't applications such as Helpdesk VNC, RSS, etc. be in violation of current opensource licensing? I thot the rule was that what is opensource must stay opensource. Does this mean applications such as Helpdesk VNC and RSS can just repackage UltraVNC and sell it as a commercial product off the shelf without any kind of problems or consequences? Can anybody just add-on a few features to UVNC and then sell it as shareware as a commercial product to make a profit?

Some clarification about licensing and commercializing your product would be helpful. Can someone enlighten us (me) about the licensing and commercialism of UVNC?

thanks!
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Post by cheaha »

Performing a search yeilds many results, one of which is [topic=3374]THIS[/topic] thread.
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Re: Violation or Compliance with UVNC GNU Licensing?

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TKD wrote:Some clarification about licensing and commercializing your product would be helpful. Can someone enlighten us (me) about the licensing and commercialism of UVNC?

thanks!
Please check out my comments here: [topic=4292][/topic]
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Who's the authority on this?

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just to be very clear...

can I make plugins to this ultravnc and sell it bundled with the ultravnc executable if I havent modified any of the original ultravnc code?

so I can distribute and sell my developed plugins packaged with the vnc code. correct?

what if we compiled the vnc code (unmodified) with our developed plugins into one executeable and sold it? would that be okay too?
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LICENSING QUESTION FOUND IN ANOTHER THREAD...

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the answer to the topic of this thread is found [topic=3374]HERE[/topic].
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Re: Who's the authority on this?

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TKD wrote:just to be very clear...

can I make plugins to this ultravnc and sell it bundled with the ultravnc executable if I havent modified any of the original ultravnc code?

so I can distribute and sell my developed plugins packaged with the vnc code. correct?

what if we compiled the vnc code (unmodified) with our developed plugins into one executeable and sold it? would that be okay too?
Yes, you can distribute unmodified binaries with a commercial product. You can not, however, compile it into your commercial product without releasing your commercial product as open source GPL licensed software.
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