GPL & "non profit use only"

[Robert Lipe]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Janez Pers <janez.pers at fe.uni-lj.si> wrote:

> Just a short check. I bumped into such things
> more than once, and would like to clean this
> issue up.
>
> If the code is GPL (and even says "V2 or later"!),
> then a restriction on "non profit use only"
> is meaningless, right?
>
> For example:
>
> http://cvlab.epfl.ch/~tola/open_source.html<http://cvlab.epfl.ch/%7Etola/open_source.html>
>

I had looked into this a few weeks ago and my read said it was almost
meaningless.  See section 10 at http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html for an
explation.

If you have a copy under GPL, you may redistribute it per the GPL and the
GPL only.

RJL
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