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| PHPTAL is licensed under [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html|LGPL]] (v2.1 or later). | PHPTAL is licensed under [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-2.1.html|LGPL]] (v2.1 or later). | ||
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| ===== Use in commercial projects ===== | ===== Use in commercial projects ===== | ||
| - | The licence does not "infect" other software you use with PHPTAL, so it's safe for commercial use. | + | The licence does not "infect" other software you use with PHPTAL, so it's safe for commercial (closed, for-profit) use in PHP applications. |
| - | * You **can** use it in commercial projects. | + | * You **can** use it in commercial applications. |
| * Your website and your templates **remain your property** and are unaffected by the license. | * Your website and your templates **remain your property** and are unaffected by the license. | ||
| - | * You **can** redistribute PHPTAL with other projects, even if the projects are not open-source. | + | * You **can** redistribute PHPTAL with applications, even if they're not free/open-source. |
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| + | * You **can** charge money for PHPTAL customisations and you can even [[http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html|sell modified versions of PHPTAL]] (although you cannot forbid redistribution). | ||
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| + | ===== Your obligations ===== | ||
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| + | **You only have obligations if you //redistribute// PHPTAL** (give PHPTAL's source code to others). Sending of PHPTAL-generated HTML from a server doesn't count as redistribution. | ||
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| + | * If you //modify and redistribute// PHPTAL, then your modifications of PHPTAL's code (and only PHPTAL's code) become LGPL-licensed.\\ However, if you always keep PHPTAL only on your server, then you're allowed to keep your modifications secret. | ||
| + | * If you redistribute your application to others with PHPTAL built-in, it must be possible to modify PHPTAL part of the application. If you use copy protection (encryption/obfuscation of PHP files), don't apply it to PHPTAL files. | ||
| - | You only have obligations if you modify PHPTAL files and redistribute them (and sending HTML from the server doesn't count as redistribution). | + | * Don't remove license (''COPYING'' file) from PHPTAL copies you give to others. |
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| //IANAL. This page is only non-legally-binding summary.// | //IANAL. This page is only non-legally-binding summary.// | ||