Posted by J.O. Aho on 02/13/06 22:11

Manuel Lemos wrote:
> 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.

They don't charge for the GPL software, otherwise you would see the majority
of the RedHat users switch over to CentOS at once. The RedHat includes
commercial (none GPL) software and support and it's for this you really pay
for. If you take a look at the RHEL price list and you will see the price is
directly connected to the amount support you choose.

Of course you could charge for the GPL, but as I pointed out, people won't pay
a lot for something they can get for free.


//Aho

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