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Article #493Re: GhostScript
From: Russ Nelson
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1989 02:31
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 1989 02:31
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In article <572@tah386.manhattan.ks.us> terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us (Terry Hull) writes: >> 1. What restrictions exist on using this software in a >> commercial product? It falls under the GNU Public License which means you cannot sell it or any work derived from it. Bzzzzzt! Wrong! You can sell it for as much as the market will bear. You just can't stop *other* people from selling the same thing for as much as the market will bear. And in fact, someone is doing exactly that. They charge a reasonable price for the code, and a "reasonable" price for the source, in the $200 range. This is perfectly reasonable given that you cannot obtain source code for *many* programs regardless of the price. -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Live up to the light thou hast, and more will be granted thee.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!rpi!image.soe.clarkson.edu!news From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: GhostScript Message-ID: <NELSON.89Sep19223144@image.clarkson.edu> Date: 20 Sep 89 02:31:49 GMT References: <945.2514938A@busker.FIDONET.ORG> <11903@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <572@tah386.manhattan.ks.us> Sender: news@sun.soe.clarkson.edu Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Followup-To: gnu.misc.discuss Organization: Clarkson University, Potsdam NY Lines: 18 In-reply-to: terry@tah386.manhattan.ks.us's message of 20 Sep 89 00:20:37 GMT