Am Dienstag, den 04.03.2008, 19:44 +0000 schrieb Sohail Somani:
> How does anyone on the Internet still have this misconception? You can
> sell GPL code on a CD. You just have to make sure that the source code is
> available for a reasonable cost.
You cannot charge for more than the shipping&handling cost (roughly, the
fine print is a bit more involved).
I wouldn't say that's "selling the software", it's more like "selling
the service".
Regards,
Jo
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:55:48 +0100, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 04.03.2008, 19:44 +0000 schrieb Sohail Somani:
>> How does anyone on the Internet still have this misconception? You can
>> sell GPL code on a CD. You just have to make sure that the source code
>> is available for a reasonable cost.
>
> You cannot charge for more than the shipping&handling cost (roughly, the
> fine print is a bit more involved).
> I wouldn't say that's "selling the software", it's more like "selling
> the service".
>
> Regards,
> Jo
Semantics cause wars. Anyawy, here is the relevant section from GPL2:
b) Accompany it 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; or,
--
Sohail Somani
http://uint32t.blogspot.com
On Mar 4, 12:03 pm, Sohail Somani <······@taggedtype.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:55:48 +0100, Joachim Durchholz wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, den 04.03.2008, 19:44 +0000 schrieb Sohail Somani:
> >> How does anyone on the Internet still have this misconception? You can
> >> sell GPL code on a CD. You just have to make sure that the source code
> >> is available for a reasonable cost.
>
> > You cannot charge for more than the shipping&handling cost (roughly, the
> > fine print is a bit more involved).
> > I wouldn't say that's "selling the software", it's more like "selling
> > the service".
>
> > Regards,
> > Jo
>
> Semantics cause wars. Anyawy, here is the relevant section from GPL2:
>
> b) Accompany it 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; or,
>
> --
> Sohail Somanihttp://uint32t.blogspot.com
I love the bsd license----take all the code you want, we will jsut
write more-----