[Discuss] Profiting from GPL software

IngeGNUe ingegnue at riseup.net
Tue Jan 26 19:31:42 EST 2016


On 01/25/16 23:40, Julian Daich wrote:
> 
> 
> El 10/11/15 a las 12:03, Steve Litt escribió:
>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 14:40:52 -0500
>> Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>> I did not say you can't try to charge money for it. I said that you 
>>>> can't make a profit from trying to sell it. Again I ask: what is 
>>>> dishonest about this statement?
>> Nothing that I see. I reached the same conclusion more than a decade
>> ago. After you sell your first copy, you're competing against zero cost
>> copies of your product.
> 
> If you are the original author, what about doing GPL but releasing the
> sources after doing some profit?
> 
> Best,
> 
> Julian
> 

I'm not good with legalese, but does the GPL allow for that? For
releasing the source code only after payment?



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