Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:17:46 02/16/04
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On February 16, 2004 at 13:38:44, Christophe Theron wrote: >On February 15, 2004 at 13:21:45, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>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. > > > >I did not know you could legally charge any amount of money for a GPLed program. >But that is indeed perfectly legal, and even encouraged by the FSF (the only >requirement is that you must give the source code for free or almost nothing if >you are asked to). > >That opens new horizons to me. Are you planning to distribute the Chess Tiger code base? ;-)
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