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Is open-sourcing previously-commercial engines a smart move? [duplicate]

This question already has answers here: Making money with Open Source as a developer? (20 answers) Making money from developing Open Source Software. How does that work? [duplicate] (3 answers) Closed 10 years ago. I saw that the Unreal Engine is going open-source on github (see link1 and link2) and that made me wonder: “is […]

Using GPL’d software in a proprietary web application

We are developing website that we charge money from members to join it as membership annual cost, so, we decided to put a plan for the second stage so we are choosing now the load balancer that we will use for our web application. I suggested HAProxy but one of my friends told me that HAProxy is under GPL and LGPL so if we used it we will have to provide source code of our website to our customers. But as I know that our website is providing service not redistributing haproxy binary and we don’t modify it so I disagreed him.

Using GPL’d software in a proprietary web application

We are developing website that we charge money from members to join it as membership annual cost, so, we decided to put a plan for the second stage so we are choosing now the load balancer that we will use for our web application. I suggested HAProxy but one of my friends told me that HAProxy is under GPL and LGPL so if we used it we will have to provide source code of our website to our customers. But as I know that our website is providing service not redistributing haproxy binary and we don’t modify it so I disagreed him.

Using GPL’d software in a proprietary web application

We are developing website that we charge money from members to join it as membership annual cost, so, we decided to put a plan for the second stage so we are choosing now the load balancer that we will use for our web application. I suggested HAProxy but one of my friends told me that HAProxy is under GPL and LGPL so if we used it we will have to provide source code of our website to our customers. But as I know that our website is providing service not redistributing haproxy binary and we don’t modify it so I disagreed him.