Re: Fund raising at the FSF

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From: Noah Friedman
Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1993 10:32

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The GPL says nothing about profitting by selling our software.  The exact
words in the GPL say

   You may charge a fee for the physical act of transferring a copy,... 

Some people have assumed this means you can only charge enough to recover
the cost of physical media and shipping.  Those people are wrong.  Nowhere
does the GPL say how large or small the fee can be.  If nothing else,
people could examine our own behavior.  We most certainly charge more than
it costs us to make actual copies and mail them.

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From: friedman@gnu.ai.mit.edu (Noah Friedman)
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Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
Date: 3 Jan 93 10:32:12
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