Accidental Public License?

Richard Fontana rfontana at redhat.com
Wed Apr 6 23:00:15 UTC 2011


On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 10:18:18PM +0100, David Woolley wrote:
> > 4) You may Distribute a Work or Modified Work as Object Code,
> provided that you satisfy the requirements of sections 2 or 3, and
> provided that you make the corresponding Source Code available to
> the user under this License.
> 
> > 5) You may charge any price or no price for each Work or Modified
> Work that you Distribute, and you may offer support or warranty
> protection for a fee.
> 
> 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

- RF




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