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In article <BRUCE.92Oct5110747@suprenum.uxb.liv.ac.uk> bruce@uxb.liv.ac.uk (Bruce Stephens) writes:
>From item 2 of the GPL:
>     ... You may charge a fee for the physical
>     act of transferring a copy.
>
>So you can charge a fee for copying it.  At no point do I see any
>indication that your fee must be "reasonable", or have simply to cover
>the costs of physically copying the software.  Perhaps it is
>ambiguous, but you're not going to get sued for trying to make a
>profit in this way. 

...yea and verily, for I did accidentally peruse a _Dr.Dobbs_Journal_ and
spotted people advertising outrageous prices for gnu-items ported to ibm-ish
clunks.

Tangentially, anyone know what the outcome was for the funding on NCBI [NBCI?
whatever...] issue; our organization zapped off a couple faxen before the
deadline, but I never heard what the result was...anyone care to email/post?

joe "That's no moon..." provo



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