On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 09:31:18PM +0100, Krzysiek Olak wrote:

Dear support GIMP,
Can I use GIMP commercially? Thanks in advance for your reply.

Gimp is Free Software, in the larger sense of the word free. One of the freedoms _any_ free software license follows is the freedom to run the program for any purpose.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org          

I see more work needs to be done to counter the lies spread by big business about what free software is (and is NOT).

Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:37:24 -0400 From: mattdm@mattdm.org
To: krzysiek.olak@gmail.com
CC: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Commercial use of GIMP

On Sat, Mar 09, 2013 at 09:31:18PM +0100, Krzysiek Olak wrote:

Dear support GIMP,
Can I use GIMP commercially? Thanks in advance for your reply.

Gimp is Free Software, in the larger sense of the word free. One of the freedoms _any_ free software license follows is the freedom to run the program for any purpose.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html

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On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:31 +0100, Krzysiek Olak wrote:

Dear support GIMP,

Can I use GIMP commercially?

To make sure you get a clear answer...

GIMP can be used commercially, yes.

Liam

Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/
Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/
Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml

The main exception might be if a company provides a paid-subscription-only network service that communicates with a GIMP plugin released under AFERO license then said company would need to provide all subscribers with the source code that implements the paid service being used. If the plugin is integrated tightly enough derivative work copyright rules come into play and the whole integrated system source may need to be released to satisfy the license. AFERO is more restrictive than plain GPL.

From: liam@holoweb.net
To: krzysiek.olak@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2013 22:24:30 -0400 CC: gimp-user-list@gnome.org
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Commercial use of GIMP

On Sat, 2013-03-09 at 21:31 +0100, Krzysiek Olak wrote:

Dear support GIMP,

Can I use GIMP commercially?

To make sure you get a clear answer...

GIMP can be used commercially, yes.

Liam

-- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml

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On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 09:42:31PM -0700, B. Jack wrote:

The main exception might be if a company provides a paid-subscription-only network service that communicates with a GIMP plugin released under AFERO license then said company would need to provide all subscribers with the source code that implements the paid service being used. If the plugin is integrated tightly enough derivative work copyright rules come into play and the whole integrated system source may need to be released to satisfy the license. AFERO is more restrictive than plain GPL.

But this is still not an exception to commercial use.

Matthew Miller           mattdm@mattdm.org