Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 09:49:33 -0600 From: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, miker@cs.utexas.edu Subject: Re: What's so evil about GPL Message-ID: <199607141549.PAA17187@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> In-Reply-To: <199607140437.WAA13056@rocky.mt.sri.com> (message from Nate Williams on Sat, 13 Jul 1996 22:37:44 -0600 (MDT))
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>>>>> "Nate" == Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> writes:
>> You are explicitly requested to demand at most the
>> distribution costs as a fee, but nothing more.
Nate> Nope, the GPL allows you to charge whatever you want.
(See? Two interpretations already, and J"org and Nate aren't even
lawyers! :-)
Here's a third:
You can charge whatever you want. But if you don't include the source
code, you have to provide an option to get the source code (valid for
three years) at a cost no higher than physically performing such
distribution of the source only.
--
Sean Kelly
NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/
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