Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 15:36:06 02/16/04
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On February 16, 2004 at 16:17:46, Dann Corbit wrote:
>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?
>;-)
Absolutely not.
I was thinking about Linux and other free software and the possibility to make
money by using it instead of an other well-known OS, for local clients, where I
live. It opens the possibility to charge not only for the service but also for
the software and the updates.
I think that very soon it will pay off (and very well) to have Linux skills.
Also, the french government has just decided to start using free software as
much as possible instead of proprietary (mainly Microsoft) with the goal of
replacing proprietary software by 2007.
It's not computer chess related at all.
Christophe
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