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  • From: Brian Ssennoga <brians AT coss.ug>
  • To: ccafrica AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [ccAfrica] TopSecret CC???
  • Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2012 16:37:15 +0300

Friends,
Apologies for crossposting, but this question popped up on one of my other lists:

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I wonder if you can explain to me if keeping secret a software developed
using open-source material is allowed under the following circumstances,
just as an example:

a) New application has been created for the Police or Bank, the customer
does not wish the source-code to be available to anybody else, want to
keep their operations top secret.
b) The application is running on Customer OS: Windows ( I think this has
no influence anyway).
c) The has been developed using: PHP/MySQL/Joomla, all of them are
open-source (GPL).

I'm not talking about merely configuring Joomla for the customer, but
about writing a real application in PHP, just as an example.
The aim is to see the limitations for use of open-source, when we deal
with such customers who would not like the idea of allowing the code of
their applications known or being browsed by the public.

Which part of GPL or LGPL allows keeping the code secret, under any
circumstances?

Regards,
Thadeo. 

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I thought there is no better place than to point it here, am sure CC has a definite solution to this, right?

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