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In article <25096@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> cs199ak@uape_14.ucsd.edu (Eiffel Kills C++) writes:
   As far as I know, if I write a software package and copyleft it, and
   sell it to someone, what's to stop them from undercutting my price and
   selling a mess of copies?  Is there any provision for further
   resellings to automatically mark some percentage or fixed dollar amount
   to go to the author?  Or are all your rights gone, including your right
   to get some compensation for writing the original code?

I thought that the GPL was pretty clear on this point.  You can not sell
a copylefted program to anyone, even if you are the author.  You can,
however, charge a reasonable fee for distributing it (ie. cost of media
plus overheads).

On the question of how you get compensated when you can't charge for
software on a per-copy basis: see the GNU manifesto (reproduced in
the GNU emacs manual).

Chris Flatters -- potential user of GNU Eiffel, if everything goes right


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