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Jackie Jen
Jackie Jen
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Posted by Jackie Jen
Jackie Jen
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can i use GPL license as commercial

hi,

I have download a source code from website and i wish to use the source code in my program for commercial. And those source code i download is under license MIT & GPL. I know MIT license can be commercial use. How about GPL license?

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William Li
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William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points
William Li
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Points

You have to be careful about library licensed under GPL, especially GPL version 3.

If your included some GPL v3 code in your codebase, then your codebase as a whole must be licensed under GPL v3 as well. You may still make it a commercial software and make money from it, but your work must be open sourced.

To learn more https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-general-public-license-v3-%28gpl-3%29