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Commercial Development
If your application is not licensed under GPL (General Public License) and you intend to distribute it, you must first purchase a GK Trust^TM Commercial License.

Typical examples of distribution that require a Commercial License:

Distribution of GK Trust^TM within your organization.
Selling non-GPL licensed software that includes GK Trust^TM (or portions thereof)to customers who install the software on their machines.
Selling non-GPL licensed software that requires customers to install GK Trust^TM themselves on their own machines.
Building a hardware system that includes GK Trust^TM and selling that hardware system to customers for installation at their own locations.

GK can only give advice on which license is right for you. The final judgment, of course can be made only by a court of law. With that said, we recommend the commercial license to all commercial and government organizations. This frees you from the broad and strict requirements of the GPL license.

To all free software enthusiasts we recommend our products under the GPL license.

To non-profit organizations or an academic institutions, we recommend you publish your application as an open source / free software project using the GPL license. Thereby, you are free to use GK Trust^TM software free of charge under the GPL license. If you have strong reasons to not publish your application in accordance with the GPL, you should purchase commercial licenses. To anyone in doubt, we recommend the commercial license. It is never wrong. Thanks to our licensing model, it is also cost-effective.