May I make customers pay fair price for transfer/license of the computer professional's intellectual property, personal labor and operational costs incurred (salaries, rents, electricity, air-conditioning, etc.) not to mention profits/margins.

components developed by me, without giving away the source code?

What is our position with: copyleft, Free/Open Source, etc.

Alas! You have missed the point entirely. Free is not the free that trick marketeers push down your throat. THE free refers to free as in freedom, not free as in cost.

Free is freedom to modify. Though most of the licenses in the free world are GPLish, there are subtle differences. You must choose one that you can enforce legally ;)

And yes, you can charge for your efforts. But you have to make the source available (atleast on request).

Check these links out for more details... and yes... googling will give you a lot of material and food for thought :).

http://www.opensource.org http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/license-list.html http://www.daemonnews.org/199905/gpl.html http://www.stromian.com/Public_Licenses.html

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