[Zope] Zope and the GPL poison pill

[Nils Kassube]

Danny William Adair wrote:

> Is it not possible to take a few GPLed Zope products, add your own effort of
> configuring, integrating, building, (re-)designing, and even documenting the
> outcome of your efforts and - ___sell___ this? Maybe not only to _one_
> customer, but burn a CD and sell it to _a couple_ of customers?

You can sell it but...

AFAIK you risk that everyone else can copy your effort for free
if you built software on GPL'ed code.

And what's only a compilation and what's a derived work (subject
to the GPL) is up to the lawyers. Personally, I try to avoid
legal ambiguities. 

Cheers,
Nils
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