[ale] To GPL or not?

[Michael H. Warfield]

Nomad the Wanderer enscribed thusly:

> My company is writing their own commercial software.  I am doing a poor man's
> HA of sorts and am looking at using a tool released under the GPL to make it
> easier.    As a result, the GPL tool will be installed on servers/systems
> we sell.

> Can anyone summarize how likely this would break the GPL or such?  I in 
> no-way tend to change the tool, I just don't want to re-write it.

	You write it, you can do what ever you want with it, even after
putting it under the GPL.  As the author of the tool, you control the
licensing.  If you want to "dual license" it as commercial-ware and GPL
the sources, that's your shot to call.  About the only thing you can't
(AFAIK) do is revoke the GPL.

> Robert

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	Mike
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