Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/07/08/04:14:30
On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Mark McIntyre wrote:
> >and while
> >that term isn't meant to imply that you can get such software "for
> >free", in practice that has always been true (since even if you demand
> >payment for the software, the first person to buy it is free to offer
> >it "for free" on his/her FTP dump). Still, companies like RedHat seem
> >to be making enough money from Free Software.
>
> its worth noting that even RMS does not actually define too much as
> "Free Software". GNU certainly don't. You're free to modify the code
> and may not charge for doing so.
I'm not sure whether you meant to say that you are forbidden from
charging money for modifications to GPL'ed code, but if you did, this
is not true. It is entirely legal to charge money for maintaining
GPL'ed code, provided that the results are made available in the
source code form and under terms compatible with GPL.
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