Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/07/10/17:52:13
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eli Zaretskii [mailto:eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il]
>
> 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.
Which makes my original point. GPL is not free software... !
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