Saturday, October 4, 2008

Re: License issues

MIT is a rather liberal license, so derivatives of MIT-licensed code can be covered by a license, which is not open-source.

2008/10/4 Jon Bennett <jmbennett@gmail.com>

>  So that means if a software firm develops a commercial product based
>  on cakephp he is able to sell the commercial product but his customers
>  do not have the rights to distribute or sell it?

As I understand it, you can distribute and sell anything you make with
cake, and you can have a separate license for your app code, but the
core cake code has to stay open source.

is that right?

jb

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