[BRLTTY] Commercial license

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Sep 12 14:52:58 EDT 2016


Samuel Thibault, on Mon 12 Sep 2016 20:51:47 +0200, wrote:
> Tim Heuer, on Mon 12 Sep 2016 11:50:32 -0700, wrote:
> > Hello there!  Is there any commercial license available for BRLTTY?  Or has the
> > project decided that GPL is the only available license for this library?
> 
> ? BRLTTY is not a library. libbrlapi, however, is a library, and it is
> provided under LGPL, which allows some commercial use.

Also, note that GPL does *not* forbid commercial use.  What it forbids
is shipping products without telling the user that there's a GPL
component and proposing to get the source somehow.

Samuel


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