Can I sell a program written by me which uses GNU-libc? Because GPL says if I use any of programs licensed by GPL I must not charge for it. Cant I legally charge reasonable price for whatever I have written?
Amish.
Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
Stallman says, 'free' software is not about the price (and says
companies are free to charge a sum to offer the operating system and services to users)
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Amish Mehta wrote:
Can I sell a program written by me which uses GNU-libc? Because GPL says if I use any of programs licensed by GPL I must not charge for it. Cant I legally charge reasonable price for whatever I have written?
First, libc is distributed under the LGPL, which means you can do anything with code that uses it - even sell it as closed source.
Second, the GPL does not say that you must not charge for your software. You can charge anything for it as long as you provide the sourcecode at NO ADDITIONAL cost. ie, if you sell your software for Rs500/-, then anyone who has bought your software should get the source code free. Anyone who has not bought your software, is not entitled to your sourcecode. When someone `buys' your software, they are buying the right to the source code as well. Also the other rights (modification and redistribution).
This is only for GPL'ed software, not for LGPL'ed software.
Absolutely you can charge for the GPLed software. The only condition that GPL puts that you are bound to give the sourcecode along with the binaries that you distribute, if you decide to commercialize the application with/without modifying the source code of the GPL software.
AFAIK you are NOT bound by GPL if you use glibc. There are however libraries which utilize GNU library license. If you make use of them then you are bound to give the source code if you commercialize the application.
--- Amish Mehta amish@ownmail.com wrote:
Can I sell a program written by me which uses GNU-libc? Because GPL says if I use any of programs licensed by GPL I must not charge for it. Cant I legally charge reasonable price for whatever I have written?
Amish.
Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe wrote:
Stallman says, 'free' software is not about the
price (and says companies are free to charge a sum to offer the operating system and services to users)
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