From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Jul 14 08:50:12 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id IAA13611 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 08:50:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id IAA13592 for ; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 08:50:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA17187; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 15:49:10 GMT Message-Id: <199607141549.PAA17187@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.4/16.2) id AA208889373; Sun, 14 Jul 1996 09:49:33 -0600 Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 09:49:33 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: nate@mt.sri.com Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, miker@cs.utexas.edu In-Reply-To: <199607140437.WAA13056@rocky.mt.sri.com> (message from Nate Williams on Sat, 13 Jul 1996 22:37:44 -0600 (MDT)) Subject: Re: What's so evil about GPL Sender: owner-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Nate" == Nate Williams 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/