> Charles Daminato writes:
>> Gregory is almost correct. You CAN charge for changes you've made to GPL
>> code, but you MUST (based on the license), include your altered code as
>> well.
>> Which means Alex will make $20 from the first person that buys the code, and
>> that person can post the code to the lists (sorry Alex...).
But that is Ok because Alex probably won't _support_ people that
do not actually buy the code off him... so if anyone might want
to honour his efforts or rely on some followup support then they
have the option of buying it... this really suits some people.
One honourable way around this is for Alex to freely offer the
code itself but right next to the download link have another one
that explains how to get, say, 30 days of email support for $20.
If he generalized the "support" angle then he might even get
people signing up not just because of the software at issue,
per se, but because they just want some help from someone who
knows about the whole system (assuming he does because he wrote
code that interfaces with the rest of the system)... in other
words the gereral support angle could be more lucrative than
just the selling of one piece of code.
The biggest bugbear is the fee transaction itself.
Sorry for wandering even further off-topic.
--markc
