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From: alexander@xn--junivrs-e1a.com
Subject: Re: Licensing Paranoia and Manual Compilation Issues
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 02:30:20 -0800 (PST)
Date: 2018-12-13T02:30:20-08:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb090ffe-9e62-43ba-ba29-9992f135402c@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <put8r0$e9a$1@dont-email.me>

> You can always "steal" GPL code, and redistribute it for a fee as you
> see fit.
> The freedom in GPL is not free as free beer, but free as free speach.
> So you would need to provide the sources to the customers you sell to.
> And I think, a fairly easy way to reproduce an executable/library.
> 
> You code depending on GPL (linked with) will inherit the GPL license.
> But you can charge your customers whatever you want.
> 
> However you likely need to provide something better that the original
> code for people _wanting_ to pay you, I guess.

I don't know wherefrom I got my information that you can't sell a GPL application. Thank you for clarifying this!

  reply	other threads:[~2018-12-13 10:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-12-11 11:46 Licensing Paranoia and Manual Compilation Issues alexander
2018-12-11 16:11 ` Simon Wright
2018-12-11 16:31   ` Lucretia
2018-12-11 19:21     ` Simon Wright
2018-12-11 20:50       ` alexander
2018-12-11 23:45         ` Simon Wright
2018-12-12  9:34           ` alexander
2018-12-12 17:44             ` Simon Wright
2018-12-13  9:21             ` Björn Lundin
2018-12-13 10:30               ` alexander [this message]
2018-12-13 10:32                 ` alexander
2018-12-11 18:50 ` G. B.
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