Dual license: Can jQuery be used in commercial products?

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Alexey2011-02-21 15:57:19

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Alexey, 2011-02-21 15:57:19

jQuery is distributed under a dual MIT or GPL Version 2 license.

What does this mean for a developer? Can he use jQuery without restrictions in his commercial products? Including using your own commercial license for your code and hiding source codes?

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Mithgol, 2011-02-21
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Yes.

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Alexander Belugin, 2011-02-21
@unkinddragon

First, what is commercial use? Interesting is the presence of the "fact of distribution". If you make your own website, you can use anything there, modify it, hide everything.
If you make a product that you distribute (boxed software), then the GPL license requires you to release the source code for the entire product based on the GPL software. The MIT license does not require this, it can be used in closed source.
The BSD license still prohibits using the name to advertise your product, MIT does not prohibit this either, we boldly write on the box: “uses jQuery!!!1”.