[thelist] Legal question, GNU/PGL related

Nicole Parrot nicole at parrot.ca
Tue Jan 15 20:38:54 CST 2002


Thanks to all who responded. I so hate legalese...

I have no inspiration for a tip right now... Unless it's related to baby
fever... :(

Nicole
----- Original Message -----
From: "noah" <noah at tookish.net>
> I think you can actually charge - the "free" means free as in speech,
> rather than free as in beer (I think that's a Slahdotism). See here:
> <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney>
> >There is nothing
> >barring you from charging for delivery, customization (with sources of
> >course), and so on.
> That's probably the most important issue w/r to GPL software - if you make
> any modifications to the code, you have to make the new code available.
> Of course, all of this is somewhat speculative, since I don't think the
GPL
> has yet been challenged or enforced by any court.






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