Micky C. :
I created a commercial web site, and the software I developed to run the site uses GPL’d libraries. As I understand the GPL, it’s okay to make profit of such a site without opening the source code I wrote, but what if I want to sell the entire business to someone else? Does it constitute a software distribution, and therefore requires me to open up the source to the general public?
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If the you use GPL code to create the software, then anyone you provide the software to must also be offered the source code.
You don’t have to open the source to the general public, you do have to open it to the people you sell it to (and they must open it to anybody they pass it on to too).