[mythtv] License

[Myth TV]

Well....it matters if you are planning to develop a *commercial* STB, and
you dont't want your competitors to take any advantage from your work or
your ideas. That's the reason why I start this thread, we want to do things
right, we know and understand what opensource movement represents and we
want to respect GPL licenses. But would prefer not to release our changes
source code because of what I've said before and we were wondering if
there's any way to achieve it.

On 4/1/09, buzz <davidbuzz at gmail.com> wrote:
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>
> On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Robert McNamara <robert.mcnamara at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> 2009/3/31 Myth TV <mythtvmythtv at gmail.com>:
>> > Hi all,
>> > is there any commercial license of MythTV, besides GNU GPL?
>>
>>
>> No.
>
> ...but remember that the GNU GPL  *DOES* entitle you use MythTV for
> commercial use.   So, please feel free to go ahead, on the condition that
> you make available your changes back, as stated in the GPL.
>
>
>>
>> > Is there any way of using MythTV code in the development of, for
>> example,
>> > the software of a SetTopBox
>>
> Yes you can build a settop box, or whaever you like, just release your code
> changes, see the GPL.
> It's really very easy, and the most likely things to occur are:
> 1) developers will ignore your changes as they are not good-enough for them
> 2) developers will love your changes, and fix bugs in them for free that
> you completely missed.
> 3) some combination of the above.
>
>
>
>> , without having to release this new software under the terms of GPL?
>>
>> No.
>
> Correct, the answer to that is no.  but why does that matter?
>
> Buzz
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