Accidental Public License?

[David Woolley]

Richard Fontana wrote:

>>
>> So charge USD 100,000,000,000 for the source code and I don't think
>> anyone will exercise their section 4 rights!
> 
> See GPLv3 section 4 para. 2: 
> 
>   You may charge any price or no price for each copy that you convey,
>   and you may offer support or warranty protection for a fee.
> 
> See also: http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html

Once you have paid for the object code version, the GPL makes a
requirement that the source be made available for no more than the
actual cost of providing it.  This licence didn't seem to have this
provision, but allowed it to be made available on the more general
terms, allowing an indefinitely large charge for it.


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