I can’t understand the last line of this GPL license.
Copyright (C) 2011 Some Name
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at
your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the
hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even
the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301
USALinking SOMEAPP statically or dynamically with other modules is making
a combined work based on SOMEAPP. Thus, the terms and conditions of
the GNU General Public License cover the whole combination.In addition, as a special exception, the copyright holders of SOMEAPP
give you permission to combine a portion of SOMEAPP with other binary
code (“Program”) under any license the copyright holders of Program
specified, provided the combined work is produced by SOMEAPP.
I want to know can I use this code in a shareware application.
1
No, you cannot use this code unless your shareware application is also licensed under the GPL.
You could ask the original copyright holder to license the code to you under a different license.