Re: Virtually Zero-Overhead Object Management is neither free software nor open source software

[Chris Thomasson]

"Chris Thomasson" <cristom@comcast.net> wrote in message 
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> I was thinking of charging a fee for a commercial product and posting 
> full-source code of all the modified GPL code it uses for free.

Would GPL force me to provide the source code for an entire commercial 
product?


Also, could I could abstract all of the modified GPL software into a 
separate shared library (e.g., libgplmod.so) and post all of the code for 
free, then create a closed-source commercial product that uses something in 
'libgplmod' and charge a fee?


If GPL forces me to provide the source-code of any software that links to 
'libgplmod' then you would have to rely on the following:

> Some people are not going to want to deal with the source code; they can 
> choose to pay a fee instead. What they would get from the fee could 
> include the compiled binaries, links to the source code, manual, 
> consulting options, ect...

in order to many any money...