Notepad++ is licensed under the General Public License (GPL), which means, among other things, that there are no restrictions on its use. You can use it for any purpose including commercial. You can give copies to anyone you want. Technically you can even sell it if you can find anyone gullible enough to pay money for it when they can download it free from SourceForge.
The only restrictions are on its distribution, and only apply in cases where you modify the source code (yes, you're even legally allowed to do that). As long as you don't modify the source code, you're fine. If you do, then if you distribute your new version of Notepad++ you have to also distribute the source code, and license it under the GPL.
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>As the official site mentioned :
>Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and
>Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows
>environment.
>
>It is applied to anyone without any obligatory fee, ie. the personal use, the commercial use, the >governmental use, etc, etc...
>The donation is appreciated, but not obligatory at all. The company where I work uses Notepad++ as >free, without giving any donation, I have no problem with that. So go for it.
>
>Don
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Hello all,
Is notepad++ commercial free?
Do we have permission to use it free in commerical companies?
Thank you
-Daniel
Notepad++ is licensed under the General Public License (GPL), which means, among other things, that there are no restrictions on its use. You can use it for any purpose including commercial. You can give copies to anyone you want. Technically you can even sell it if you can find anyone gullible enough to pay money for it when they can download it free from SourceForge.
The only restrictions are on its distribution, and only apply in cases where you modify the source code (yes, you're even legally allowed to do that). As long as you don't modify the source code, you're fine. If you do, then if you distribute your new version of Notepad++ you have to also distribute the source code, and license it under the GPL.
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>As the official site mentioned :
>Notepad++ is a free (free as in "free speech", but also as in "free beer") source code editor and
>Notepad replacement, which supports several programming languages, running under the MS Windows
>environment.
>
>It is applied to anyone without any obligatory fee, ie. the personal use, the commercial use, the >governmental use, etc, etc...
>The donation is appreciated, but not obligatory at all. The company where I work uses Notepad++ as >free, without giving any donation, I have no problem with that. So go for it.
>
>Don