On Fri, 14 Jan 2011 12:32:31 pm Matthew Corrie Wade wrote:

Hello. I would like to be able to use Gimp to alter designs for commercial use - is this allowed?

I & several others in Australia use GIMP for this & have never run into a problem.

Unlike certain other commercial enterprises, Open Source licenses typically do not have specific exceptions for commercial use.

The one near-exception I know of is the Creative Commons ShareAlike license which _can_ have exceptions like this sample one I drummed up:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

Thanks for your time.

Like everything else I have or am, happy to put it to a good purpose.

Cheers; Leon

On Fri, Jan 14, 2011 at 3:02 PM, Matthew Corrie Wade wrote:

Hello.  I would like to be able to use Gimp to alter designs for commercial use - is this allowed?  Thanks for your time.

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Hi, the license of GIMP (GPL) makes no comment on works created via use of the software, so it is unrestricted. The term "derivative works" in the GPL has confused some people at various times -- it means a derived software, though, not any manner of thing which is created *by* the software.
For example, there are commercial software packages for Linux compiled with GCC; The compilation result is 'program output', not a derivative work.

Hope that clarifies things.

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Matthew Corrie Wade wrote,

Hello. I would like to be able to use Gimp to alter designs for commercial use - is this allowed? Thanks for your time.

Well, GIMP can be used to produce designs for commercial use; that is, GIMP can be used in a commercial environment.

Whether you have the rights to modify someone else's existing design is another matter unrelated to GIMP itself.