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Subject: Re: Licensing Paranoia and Manual Compilation Issues
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> 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!