Sometime today, Tushar Burman wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "Manish Jethani" cruisecoder@yahoo.com
thread. Freedom == Good Thing (TM), Paying for software == Not so good (and so on and so
Paying for s/w == Not so good. Who said? That's not why I use GNU/Linux and that's not why I want to
I said that, but I derive that from within the confines of the GPL. If the GPL said all that it does, plus allowed one to sell binary-only copies, it would be pretty stupid, since no one would bother paying, right?
I don't get the link, really. The GPL doesn't say anywhere that having to pay for software is "not so good". All it says is that the user shouldn't be charged anything extra for the source code to the software being sold. And BTW, I just _paid_ for my 2-CD RedHat 6.2 from FreeOS, on Thursday.
So you can sell "binary-only" software, and you can give the source code if the user asks. Most users won't even bother to ask for the source, because few people have the time to fix bugs for you.
Manish