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Article #1144Re: Suggestions for the free Unix projects
From: Bruce Stephens
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 11:09
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1992 11:09
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>>>>> On 4 Oct 92 12:44:53 GMT, terry@cs.weber.edu (A Wizard of Earth C) said:
> The problem arises from the non-specific wording of the license and
> the fact that I can not make a profit on the distribution of the
> code.
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.
In other FSF/Stallman documents it is quite clear that FSF has no
objections to you charging as much as you like for providing a copy of
the code, and any fee you like for whatever extra service you offer.
"Freedom" refers to what your end-users are allowed to do with the
code---that is, that they must have the same rights as you. In
particular, they will be able to compete with you.
-- Bruce Stephens. Centre for Mathematical Software Research, Liverpool Univ.
Internet: bruce@uxb.liv.ac.uk
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