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question about licence

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On this webpage:

http://www.wxwidgets.org/about/newlicen.htm


it says that you can distribute it as GPL or derived works in binary.

Does that mean I can use this library to help create my application and then only distribute a binary form?

And in reverse, does that mean I am not allowed to distribute my modified work if I include the source code?

Can I later sell such an application?

Sorry for being an uber noob.
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Post by priyank_bolia »

Does that mean I can use this library to help create my application and then only distribute a binary form?
Under all open source license you can distribute the code also, but in wxWidgets license, you can also distribute only the binary without or with the code.
And in reverse, does that mean I am not allowed to distribute my modified work if I include the source code?
No, because this is very against the principle of open source. You can distribute the code also.
Can I later sell such an application?
Yes
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Post by brownbear »

Wow fantastic. I'm in research so I'm not sure if I can code everything under the gpl so this is awesome for me.
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