On Wednesday, 21. January 2009, Martin Spott wrote: > b) The GPL states that "You may charge a fee for the physical act of > transferring a copy, [...]", but "You may not copy, modify, sublicense, > or distribute the Program except as expressly provided under this > License". > > Now, how would you interpret the vague term of "selling a software" ? > The word "selling" is probably a bit unfortunately choosen here, but > depending on one's interpretation, the note might conform pretty well > with the ideals of the GPL,
Please, as we are no lawers ourselfs, and as the statement in the GPL may be easily misunderstood, accept the Free Software Foundation's answer to this question: Does the GPL allow me to sell copies of the program for money? Yes, the GPL allows everyone to do this. The right to sell copies is part of the definition of free software. Except in one special situation, there is no limit on what price you can charge. (The one exception is the required written offer to provide source code that must accompany binary-only release.) http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowMoney Stefan ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
