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Licensing yankees8223 06 Apr 18:20
  Licensing Branko Vukelic 06 Apr 19:34
  Licensing saulgoode@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com 06 Apr 20:50
2010-04-06 18:20:47 UTC (almost 15 years ago)
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I had a question about the GIMP license. Can it be used in an enterprise, corporate, or government setting? I would like to install it on a couple of computers in our office but before I do, I need to make sure the license agreement allows this. From what I could tell, it's okay but I need to be 100% sure. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you.

Branko Vukelic
2010-04-06 19:34:32 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Licensing

Hi, Christopher,

Gimp uses GPL. You can find more about it here:

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/quick-guide-gplv3.html

In short, it can be used just about anything you can imagine, provided you give your users the exact same rights. This does NOT extend to anything you create on Gimp, just the software itself, and any modifications you may make on it.

The most important aspect of GPL may not apply to you, but it's that If you make a modification to the software, and/or you decide to redistribute it, you MUST honor the copyright of the intellectual property associated with the product, and you MUST release the full source code including the parts you've modified.

Just using the software is completely free, of course, and no strings attached. In fact, it's encouraged. :D

Good luck, and best regards.

On Tue, Apr 6, 2010 at 6:20 PM, Christopher S. wrote:

I had a question about the GIMP license. Can it be used in an enterprise, corporate, or government setting? I would like to install it on a couple of computers in our office but before I do, I need to make sure the license agreement allows this. From what I could tell, it's okay but I need to be 100% sure. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you.

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saulgoode@flashingtwelve.brickfilms.com
2010-04-06 20:50:49 UTC (almost 15 years ago)

Licensing

Quoting "Christopher S." :

I had a question about the GIMP license. Can it be used in an enterprise, corporate, or government setting? I would like to install it on a couple of computers in our office but before I do, I need to make sure the license agreement allows this. From what I could tell, it's okay but I need to be 100%
sure. Any input would be appreciated. Thank you.

There are no license restrictions on how you use GIMP either personally or within your company/agency. You may make as many copies as you like and install them on as many machines as you like. You may make modifications and improvements to the code and so long as you do not distribute the modified versions outside your company, there is no requirement that you share your changes.

Basically, as long as your usage of the GIMP remains internal to your company, you have effectively the same rights as original author would have.

However, should you decide to distribute GIMP to people outside your company then there are some conditions that must be satisfied. These conditions vary somewhat depending upon the nature of your distribution but they boil down to basically three things 1) you must be be willing to provide the source code, 2) you must offer recipients the same unrestricted rights to use/copy/modify the program and the source code that you had, and 3) you must provide recipients with a patent license for any patented technologies which you have introduced in the code you've added GIMP.