On 6/12/07, Jeff Rollin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the last episode, (On Tuesday 26 Sivan 5767 16:04:13), Thomas Bächler > wrote: > > It is not an issue of license costs. IIRC, you are not allowed to let > > people pay for GPL software. You can sell the material and documentation > > you wrote though, and charge customers for your personal work. > > > > Most Linux distributors do that. So if the costs are the cost of a DVD-R > > and the shipping cost, plus a really small amount for the time you take > > do do all that, it would be no problem. > > You most certainly are allowed to charge for GPL software. However, whether or > not you provide binaries for a fee, you are NOT allowed to charge extra for > sources.
I was under the impression this was correct as well - there's nothing stopping me from selling GPL'd software anywhere in the GPL - it is just that most people with technical knowledge would be daft to purchase it for the same reasons they're purchase, say, Photoshop. Buying free software happens for other reasons - i.e. those people who buy ISOs because they don't have the bandwidth to download the whole thing. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
