Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:21:45 02/15/04
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On February 14, 2004 at 17:45:45, Christophe Theron wrote: >On February 14, 2004 at 03:56:09, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On February 13, 2004 at 11:47:59, Christophe Theron wrote: >> >>>No it is not legal to charge for the software. It is OK to charge for >>>distribution costs and service, but not for the software. >>> >>>There are no distribution costs in this case (you do not have to pay to have >>>your program available at Handango) and I fail to see what kind of service they >>>provide. >>> >>>9.95 is illegally selling GPL software. >> >>You are completely wrong. >> >>http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html >> >>-- >>GCP > > > >Thank you for pointing this article to me, it seems I was wrong. People sell GPL stuff all the time. Look at this: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000E3QNB/qid=1076869125//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i3_xgl65/002-9067846-1194427?v=glance&s=software&n=507846 $68 is not the cost of media, I am afraid. It's actually rather humerous. People also use GPL stuff and do not follow the agreements. There are some famous chess programs that have done this, for instance.
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