The software should be available fully without any license charge.
You can charge for your service.
I am also interested if source code is available or not?
GPL does not say that you can't charge, but the software must be free for use,
reuse and distribution.
Which means there should not be a think like license code or some thing as raj
pointed out.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 06:21:45PM +0530, Raj Mathur (राज माथुर) wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 May 2012, Pravin Dhayfule wrote:
> > I had seen and used GCompris on Ubuntu and suggested it to a friend
> > for his school going child. The only problem was that he uses
> > Windows (and has no recent plans for shfting to GNU/Linux). So I
> > asked him to download and install GCompris for Windows. But to a
> > greatest shock (as I was not earlier aware of it), GCompris after
> > loading on Windows asks for a Code (that sounded like a license key)
> > wit a note "The Windows versions have a limited number of
> > activities, about 60 on the 120 available and to get all 120
> > activities the user has to PAY". This edition (restricted) also is
> > distributed under GPL.
> >
> > Now as per my Knowledge GPL distributed software are FREE to use and
> > Distribute (only services such as distribution, etc. are chargeable).
> > How come GCompris is distributed as a proprietary software as a DEMO
> > version and Pay for Full edition under GPL?
> >
> > They have specified this even on their site:
> > http://gcompris.net/Buying-the-Windows-version
> >
> > How can users get converted to GNU-Linux just by making software PAID
> > for Windows? And inspite of that call it FREE?
>
> This is bound to happen if you mix up free apples with free speech.
>
> Software under the GPL is free as in freedom, not necessarily free as in
> without charge. You have access to the source code; if you don't want
> to pay for the Winduhs version, nothing is stopping you from compiling
> your own binary on Winduhs and using it, giving it away or even selling
> it in competition to gcompris.net.
>
> That's what freedom is all about.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- Raj
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