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Scott Johnston:
   I'm unclear on whether Cygnus Support is permitted, by the terms of
   the GPL, to charge for anything more than the physical act of
   transferring a copy, when asked to redistribute a program they have
   distributed at least once before.

No, it's perfectly clear.  If they distribute the software, they may
only charge nominal fees for doing so.  This even applies to the first
copy.  This also applies to the people who commissioned the software.

By some strange coincidence, however, Cygnus tends to develop software
that their clients desire.  I imagine they also get yanked out of bed
if anything critical fails in the middle of the night...

The way I understand it, Cygnus prefers it this way (having their
source be freely redistributable, not getting yanked out of bed :-),
and see it as a way of making more freely distributable software
available.  But maybe a Cygnusite should speak on that subject.

Raul Rockwell