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Re: [LUG] Open source, GNU.



On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Alex Charrett wrote:
> 	However, from deep in the GPL (a tad abbrevaited):
> 
> 	You may copy and distribute the Program, 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.
> 
> 
> The real sticking point IMHO with selling GPL'd software is selling other
> peoples contributions and them making no gains from it.  To be honest, if
> you want to sell it, dont GPL it.

I think you can sell your stuff if its your copyright even *with* other
peoples contributions - essentially you can only profitably charge for
your particular bit - so if none of the code is yours (ie
linuxemporium) you are allowed to cover costs for media but if you are
Redhat the copyright code you have contributed you can charge whatever you
like for regardless of what its included with.

A.

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