The GPL FAQ (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html) explains clearly
that you may charge any fee for distributing a copy of your program.
But when you distribute a copy of your program, you give the same rights
(right to study, modify, distribute) to the user who receives that copy,
which means he/she can also can charge a fee for distributing (your)
program.
On Fri, 2004-03-05 at 02:52, K.Sriram wrote:
When I read about GPL license terms & Conditions I got to know that--
From http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-software-for-freedom.html
The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL) has no requirements about how
much you can charge for distributing a copy of free software. You can
charge nothing, a penny, a dollar, or a billion dollars. It's up to
you, and the marketplace, so don't complain to us if nobody wants to
pay a billion dollars for a copy. We are'nt concerned about the money,
we are concerned abt the freedom that the end user gets.
Remember that GPL gives u more freedom than open source software
license.
This made me happy, coz a programmer works hard to code an app. He
will surely hesitate to give it as a free ( no cost ) software.
Instead of that he can put that app. along with its source ( including
all the freedom as mentioned in GPL ) in a media and sell it for a
good price. But when I read the terms of GPL at
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
Accompany it ( ur dist media, cd, floppy etc.) with a written offer,
valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge
no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a
complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code, to be
distributed under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above on a medium
customarily used for software interchange.
Here they hav said that u must not charge no more than your cost made
in buying, writing ur software in a media and transferring it to the
customer. So what abt the programmers' effort ? I can't understand
this.
At one point they hav said that u can sell for any cost, and at
another they hav said that u shud not charge no more than ur cost of
performing the distribution.
Can anyone explain?
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