On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, jesus X wrote:
>
> You cannot sell the software itself. You can sell software that runs with/on
> GPLed software, but the software itself must be 100% cost free and restriction
> free. That's the nature of the GPL.
That is absolutely not true.
# Redistributing free software is a good and legitimate activity; if you
# do it, you might as well make a profit from it.
-- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
The only reason that it is not often done is that there is no point. Your
first customer is automatically granted (per the GPL, or MPL) the right to
give the product away free. So if you charge $100 for your GPLed product,
then your first customer can turn around and sell it to everyone else for
$50. And of course, their first customer can turn around and just upload
the whole thing to a website. So selling GPL software doesn't "work". It
is not, however, in any way forbidden.
# ``Free software'' is a matter of liberty, not price.
-- http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
I would recommend reading all the articles ("propaganda") at
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/
...if you have a spare weekend. They are IMHO very enlightening.
> Actually, the MPL does grant those right. See: Komodo.
Komodo's license was (and might still be, I have not heard that it has
been corrected) illegal due to its violation of the MPL.
> And unlike wood, you can't go to the store and buy more time.
Damn shame, too. :-(
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