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| ===== Commercial License ===== | ===== Commercial License ===== | ||
| - | The one thing that is not possible with Cafu under the GPL is combining it with proprietary (non-free) code and distributing the result publicly (non-public use such as private or company internal is ok). | + | The one thing that is not possible with Cafu under the GPL is combining it with proprietary (non-free) code and distributing the result publicly. (Non-public use such as private or company internal use is ok, so that you can evaluate and test Cafu to your heart's content.) |
| - | That is, you can not use the free Cafu source code in order to create a new program (e.g. a computer game) that is publicly sold (distributed) //without// releasing the full source code (including all of your previously closed, proprietary parts) under the GPL as well. | + | That is, you can not use the free Cafu source code in order to create a new program (e.g. a computer game) that is publicly distributed //without// releasing the full source code (including all of your previously closed, proprietary parts) under the GPL as well. |
| Please consult the [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html|GPL text]] and the [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html|GPL FAQs]] for details. | Please consult the [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html|GPL text]] and the [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html|GPL FAQs]] for details. | ||
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| ==== External Libraries ==== | ==== External Libraries ==== | ||
| - | Of course, Cafu uses only such external libraries that are legally compatible with closed-source use, that is, libraries that in turn do //not// impose GPL-like restrictions of their own. | + | All external libraries that are used in Cafu are legally compatible with closed-source use, and none of them imposes GPL-like restrictions of its own. |
| See file [[http://trac.cafu.de/browser/cafu/trunk/LICENSE.txt|LICENSE.txt]] for details, | See file [[http://trac.cafu.de/browser/cafu/trunk/LICENSE.txt|LICENSE.txt]] for details, | ||
| or ask us if you have any questions! | or ask us if you have any questions! | ||