GPL & "non profit use only"

[Allan Hardy]

The question doesn't make it clear who put the restriction on the 
license, I guess it was the original developer/copyright holder?

In which case its no longer GPL, it is modified GPL and really shouldn't 
be presented as GPL
However, its still a license and terms and is not to be considered 
meaningless

Such a product would no longer be able to be part of a derived work with 
a pure GPL product, incompatible licenses, it would not be considered 
Debian free, be a candidate for inclusion into a Debian distribution, etc.

If the restrictions was added by someone other then the original 
developer/copyright holder - well that would be a pure violation of GPL 
and I think then it would be meaningless.

If it was modified code, then it would be a real mess, because the 
original code is under pure GPL, the modified code is under nonPure GPL 
and the I event think the two parts would be incompatible licenses.

IANAL




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