On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:40:52 -0500, Rich Pieri wrote: > On 11/9/2015 1:07 PM, Robert Krawitz wrote: >> Nothing in the GPL restricts what you can charge for selling the >> software in the first place. It's only the accompanying source code >> that you have to provide for no more than the actual cost of the >> distribution. > > I did not say you can't try to charge money for it. I said that you > can't make a profit from trying to sell it. Again I ask: what is > dishonest about this statement?
I think it depends upon what you define as "profit from trying to sell it". If you insist that it only counts direct sales with no support, I agree that it's likely to be difficult to make a profit (although the FSF used to make a small amount of money selling tapes of some of their software, but these days with the net it's going to be a lot harder). But if you count support contracts bundled with the software, it's a very different picture. And since the support contract wouldn't exist without the underlying software, I think it's nitpicking to not count that. -- Robert Krawitz <r...@alum.mit.edu> *** MIT Engineers A Proud Tradition http://mitathletics.com *** Member of the League for Programming Freedom -- http://ProgFree.org Project lead for Gutenprint -- http://gimp-print.sourceforge.net "Linux doesn't dictate how I work, I dictate how Linux works." --Eric Crampton _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss