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On Wed, 8 Jul 1998 04:40:19 GMT, Egil Kvaleberg <egil@kvaleberg.no> wrote:
>On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Kenneth P. Turvey wrote:
>
>> There is nothing in the GPL that indicates the fare should be only for
>> handling.
>
>Did you ever read the GPL? It says:
>
>     You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy

1) The GPL does not apply at all to the owner of the copyright.  They may
charge whatever they wish for the program without regard to what the GPL
says.  The intent of the GPL is to protect the rights of future users of the
source code (including the purchasers) not restrict the rights of the owner of
the copyright.  In addition the GPL does not put an upper limit on this 
charge.  

The exact wording of the section from which you extracted that is as follows:

"You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy, and
you may at your option offer warranty protection in exchange for a fee."	



>
>and:     
>
>     for a charge no more than your
>     cost of physically performing source distribution

This is a restriction on the amount that a distributor may charge to provide
you with source code after you have already purchased the binaries.  It only
applies when binaries have been distributed without source included and only
to those people or companies to which a binary distribution was made.  

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-- 
Kenneth P. Turvey <kturvey@pug1.SprocketShop.com> 

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government
inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly
hostile to republican liberty.
	-- George Washington