Posted by Manuel Lemos on 02/13/06 20:09

Hello,

on 02/13/2006 04:53 AM Jasen Betts said the following:
> On 2006-02-12, J <notanymore> wrote:
>> GPL says I can't sell a finished product.. what about being paid for the
>> labor of implementing it for a business?
>
> The way I read it, you give them the source and they pay you for your work
> that's fair. If they choose to distribute it they can't charge for it and
> must provide source at no extra cost.

GPL that does impose that. If that was true, Red Hat , SuSE, Mandriva,
etc.. could not sell Linux distributions that come package with GPL
software.

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Regards,
Manuel Lemos

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